Mid Career Crisis An Overview

• Jun 23, 2020
• In Mentoring and Guidance
by Shibaji Bose

Mid-Career Crisis is caused when

• You are stuck up at work for reasons beyond and within your control, which remains unidentified.
• Handicapped by indecision when it comes to taking a call wrt to scope, role, function, responsibilities and reporting.
• Unhappy with situations, people, business environment and communication.
• Feel under-utilised or threatened.
• Feeling unrecognised and not rewarded.
• When your knowledge is of higher order and you are made to perform lower order level jobs.
• You are over performing and people deliberately don’t want to recognize your worth.

So, What is mid career counselling?

It is an art and a process of ‘listening’ to your concerns. Aimed at identifying the gaps between your current state and the desired state at work by extending support to you, in arriving at a realistic state of mind by accepting the reality and agreeing to your strengths & limitations. It is a process of building sustainable agreements in dealing with issues related to career, career path, career shift and career changes.

What are the signals?

• When you are dragging or forcing yourself to the work place.
• Lack of clarity with regard to work and work place.
• Crisis in inter-personal relationship at work place.
• Dissatisfaction with the role and responsibility.
• Lack of motivation, leading to frustration.
• Work-life imbalances.
• Extreme emotions of anger, despair and irritation.
• When you carry office related tension back home too often & it is beginning to impact your personal relationships.

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