Career Change and Job Hunting
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A career change may be the impetus that helps end your bipolar illness. I know it was for me. And I mean that with all my heart.
Read the papers. Watch the news. Talk to your friends and coworkers. Look inside your own heart.
Are you happy with what you do to earn a living, day in and day out? If so, then read no further. You are one of the miniscule lucky few. But if you're bipolar and hate your job, a career change is now too important to avoid. It becomes a case of "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Is your job irritating (or causing) your bipolar symptoms or is your illness affecting your job performance?
I'll lay heavy money on the first choice. A career change will alleviate your pain.
Most people are unhappy with their jobs. This unhappiness can blow up to the size of your particular mental illness. Life fulfillment, which frequently translates into job fulfillment, is critically important to your good mental health. Crappy job equals crappy mind. It really is that easy.
I experienced all of the above. Job hunting led me to thirty different willing employers. I could do anything I cared to attempt. But none of those jobs made me happy. Once a guy has had thirty jobs, he can't help but detect...a pattern.
I didn't seem to like anything. But I had to pay my bills. Once I realized that these two situations were coexisting in my life, I got scared. It made further employment even harder. I wanted a career change but I thought any work at all was impossible.
My depression would worsen exponentially just upon entering the parking lot of any job I held. The dread and despair I felt, every day, almost vacuumed the air from my lungs with its soul-stealing force. If you believe that will be the case no matter where you work, then where do you try to work?!
This pain got me to researching how I might get out of this loop to nowhere.
It led me to "What Color Is Your Parachute?"
And I thank the Universe for leading me there.
It's simple. Take what you know best and combine it with what you love most. But how? That's where this book by Richard Bolles comes into action. If you hate your job, then buy this book!
You have hidden skills. You know how to do things that others will pay you for but you're probably not aware of what these skills are.
You love to do something. What thing would you do, all day long, if your bills were taken care of? What are your hobbies? What one thing, above all the rest, do you talk about incessantly to any who'll listen? That is where you belong.
But many of us already know these facts. Trying to find the real world applications and the hidden jobs that meet these two needs is tough. But "Parachute" will get the ball rolling.
When I first read it, I was getting sicker by the day from my bipolar. The meds were destroying me too, but I didn't know that then. I was on the way out. For real. But I learned enough from reading that book to plant a seed. It would be five years before I got to act on it but it grew into why you are knowing me today.
I never forgot what I had learned from that initial reading. And it paid me back handsomely when the time was right. It paid me back in the form of my returning sanity.
Don't be dismayed by my 5-year gap. You're not going to experience the same wait.
Keep this in mind: I did not know how to fight my bipolar back then like you do now, just by reading the rest of my site. Part of that five years was doing two years of research and testing to learn how to beat bipolar. Another three were spent doing what I'd learned and repairing the wasteland that had become my life.
You don't have to wait that long. I did the hard part for you! Get this book. Read my site and start using TORQUE BACK and make your career change happen a whole lot faster than mine did!
Come back one day and comment below on how it all worked for you. My visitors and I would love to know how you made out!
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