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I have been struggling with starting a new career. There are so many different things I find myself very undecided that I am driving myself crazy. I am feeling stuck. I thought about becoming a Licensed Massage Therapist. Does anyone know if this would be a good career for my personality type? I have been in the corporate world for years and I am feeling burned out, drained, and a part of me is dying every day. Any help or suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks!
Karen
Thanks!
Karen
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Re: New Career
Wed, August 23, 2006 - 8:08 AMI don't know Karen,
but I thought I'd share because I am sort of in the same boat but a little further along on what to do for myself, I don't know the options available to you.
I had a working class job as a machine operator and carpenter, a degree in fine art. My personality was wrong for my field. I was well liked, being INFJ even when you really don't want people to confide everything to you and you've done nothing to earn their trust they automatically tell you everything including things you really wished you didn't know. The environment toughened me up a bit, helped me to work on the vulnerabilities I had with sensitivity, you have to in a shop full of working class men. I'm not knocking what I learned from years outside my comfort zone, but I wasn't where my strengths were. You can't make a foreman who has to be like a drill seargent out of an INFJ without creating some really severe internal cracks. MY boss could see that, so I was passed by for management and some good people in the company told me that I was really in the wrong career. .
and I was, I knew it.
They wanted me to stay, but I'd never be management or move up from where I was so I had to plan a totally new career at my age, not sure of what I wanted to do.
I consider myself lucky, I had bought a small home years before that I am fixing up to sell and use the money I made on it for graduate school... I am not married and do not have kids. I regretted that I didn't have those things yet because I wanted to settle down much earlier in life but now I rejoice that I don't have those things because if I had the house, the wives, the kids I'd really be stuck. I don't know your circumstances Karen, but if you have no kids now is the time to take risks because it's just you and whatever risks you take if it's just you that you have to worry about you can still bounce back from the worst case scenario.
Trust me, you don't see people living on the curb in "skid row" who say, "i had a good life, but I took out too many student loans for my phys therapy and couldn't find a job (cough-wheeze) and now it's been twenty years of hopping boxcars cause no one will cut be a break".
I can assure you that you can probably at least get some kind of loan if you don't want to do what I might do, just sell the house and live in a dorm for two years and go to school full time. Even with a kid your options aren't closed to you, more complicated, but I know single moms going and getting degrees and certifications while even working, do not ask me how... I have absolutely no friggin idea... only admiration. In the end what it will mean is a period of a few years or so working in the profession you want, but in a bit of debt, maybe a lifestyle a bit more spartan than you would have hoped... but not skid row. Eventually the debts get paid and the lifestyle that comes with the career catches up. Especially if you go into a feild where your strenghs and gifts are...
The point is, there is a personal price to be paid to get to where you want to go. I'm giving up my house and hopefully I won't be paired in a dorm room with a kid that's like a John Bellushi character though I'll probably strongly request to be paired with another grad student. But either way I'll give up some privacy (which pains me a bit). I'll give up living by a beach, sad, but not so hard after Katrina. I'll give up living close to my parents, whoo, wait, that's an asset not a sacrifice :)... but really what I find is that for quite a while I had all the peices there to make a change when I wasn't happy I just didn't make the changes because my mind made obstacles for me that weren't really real.
So reflect on what you have and what you are willing to give up...and if it's enough, start looking into loans and such. Massage Therapy may or may not be your forte but really you don't get to really ever get to know what you want until you've taken the risk of doing it. Well hmmm, maybe you can get a little more insight... lemmie think...
Ah, yes, there has to be some tribes for massage therapists, and some living in your area, perhaps let one of them in your area know about your consideration of the feild that you can ask them about their day, their field, their lifestyle, meet them, see what they do first hand, make a new friend. Also pay attention to the threads in their tribe, things they worry about, share on. Maybe there is no tribe for it but there has to be a discussion board somewhere on the web.
Employment shouldn't be a big problem, as the babyboomers are aging and hitting their retirement ages, elderly are often a big chunk of the physical therapy clientel and they are only going to take up a bigger and bigger demand as time goes on so you should find a fairly high demand in future years.
by the way I really relate with the feeling a part of you is dying everyday, but realize this, if that is the way you feel somewhere you really have nothing to lose. I realize that I felt that way at my job for too long, that's not quality of life, you may think you have something to lose holding you back from making any decision.
but if you feel that way every day you have nothing to lose, there is always some way to have a roof on your head and food on the table no matter what risks you take. So don't let yourself act as if you have anything to lose, you don't, that should make decision making a lot less of a fuss. Because Janis Joplin puts it best that that's what freedom is "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
you are free, relish it.
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Re: New Career
Wed, August 23, 2006 - 9:27 AMI enjoyed your story -- thanks for sharing it. If you invoke the Laws of Attraction, I believe the world is your oyster.
I also think there is something that really comes front and center for INFJs -- especially in midlife -- about walking the talk. Since the "spine of integrity" for INFJs shuttles between visualizing and realizing, there's a time when INFJs lose heart if they are not pursuing a dream or something they feel passion around. They know they are out of integrity. I recognize and honor your courage for taking the risk to shape your life to be the way you want it.
If there's some way I can support you going forward, please let me know.
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Wed, August 23, 2006 - 10:25 AMNice website Vikki, really chortled at the stonehenge joke.
I think I will okay for now, my main focus is fixing and selling the house and finding out where to take the GRE an study for the exam.
I will be moving to Texas, to be close to date a fellow tribester where I will apply to go to school, liked the area around Denton, looking to be in University of North Texas.
The degree I hope for is the masters in Psych, counseling emphasis. I will probably have to take some undergrad courses in psych but I had a few already in my undergad degree that was art, but originally had a teaching emphasis, so I may have filled some requirements already.
But I realize it's all a complicated process, I'm more excited and not particularly scared, I was earlier... I can do this and there is always the way. I have the help and advice of another tribe freind who is almost a career student and I shouldn't have a problem.
The important thing is that I got to expreriance before going into practice the daily reality of a normal American's working class life with people who many times didn't have high school educations, drug problems, criminal records, pressures.. and in a working town where families face pressures relating to utilities getting shut off even as they work full time, alchoholism, single moms, etc. I don't think it would have been a good idea if I wanted to be a counselor when I was an undergrad, twenty something, with nothing but good intentions, a few demons, more issues than reader's digest, and an idealism that didn't consider compassion on a more individualized level. No, back then I probably would have done more damage than good, and I needed to just go on the jouney I went on to even get a clue.
Whether I find myself counseling in a prison, or at a rehab clinic, or on the health plan of a regular working class person that's really struggling I'll understand... because these were the people I worked with and who became my freinds. It's not the idealism of a polyanna that will make every patient into some uber functional happy person overnight, but maybe just a little bit more equipped, some better defenses, some better anger management skills, enough to find some moments of peace and calm and to heal a bit from the bumps and bruises life gave them so they can get back into the game.
A side of me also wants to write about the systemic psychological realities that working class people have to deal with in our current economic system and political climate, the real pressures on them, the hours... and publish it using research. I already know my hypothesis, that for cheap labor we have created a reality for people that reduces them to a cycle of stressful work for long hours and self-medication and ultimately destabilizes family structures and causes their communities to suffer as well. I'd hope that publishing such a book illustrating these realities will cause the health and medical community to investigate and make their own pronouncements that people are being driven to poor psychological health by the circumstances of their employment and compensation which on the whole gets cheaper by the year even as the price of everything else inflates. Ultimately I'd hope such research, however controversial, could help one day in making the case for real social change.
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Wed, August 23, 2006 - 11:05 AMIt sounds to me like you're in a really good space. Counseling seems to show up a lot with INFJs from what I've noticed, and it sounds like you have plenty of life lessons to support you in your work. I don't know your age, but around 35 is when some people suggest we start getting real about what we're actually going to do with our life. All the rest is just racking up experience.
There's a logic about things, which I don't fully understand myself, but they say that when you reach the place in your life where you can look back on everything that's happened to you and know you wouldn't change a single thing if you had to do it over again, that's when you have truly evolved. So what you've been through has all been for the purpose of something that is now unfolding. How exciting!
It seems to me that you have some innate wisdom about that, and some understanding, even if you aren't articulating it that way. I think you are connected to something very powerful, and that's what's running your life right now. I say, get more in touch with that!
There's one little piece I'd like to share with you from the coaching side, if I may. One of the foundations of my coaching model is that all my clients are "naturally creative, resourceful, and whole." In other words, I do NOT have to "fix" them -- and I can't anyway! This perspective has served me well in the work I do, and I offer it up to you. (I suspect it echoes the principles Virginia Satir believed in, and you may want to study her methods, as a fellow INFJ/counselor).
A webpage I created that seems pertinent to this topic of "fixing" is here, in the second half:
www.infj.com/INFJ_RoseColoredGlasses.htm
You may find it useful as you enter this new line of self-realization.
-Vicky Jo
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Wed, August 23, 2006 - 3:28 PMVicky said:
"I also think there is something that really comes front and center for INFJs -- especially in midlife -- there's a time when INFJs lose heart if they are not pursuing a dream or something they feel passion around. "
wow - this is so where i am at right now.
I am in the human service field, I have been practicing as both a clinical and medical social worker since 1990 . I currently work at a dialysis clinic and the waste of paper, plastic and lack of consciousness around recycling is KILLING ME. In a meeting I was in today, they mentioned a study they are embarking on to test the financial solvency of not reusing dialyzers. (the life of dialyzer is approximately 40-50 treatments - they are considering going to a one use policy - ie : throwing them away after one use).
anyway, while i would love to go into the entertainment industry, my true heart and passion is environmental issues. I have no idea how I would start in that field, with no technical experience and a background in social work, but I'm considering looking into it. It literally hurts me physically to see all the waste and feel like I'm not doing anything to help protect the earth.
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Wed, August 23, 2006 - 5:20 PMI wonder...
I know advertizers hire consultants with an education in psychology or sociology to come up with campaigns, reveiw written material for content, mainly it's to hone and fine tune the emotional impact that they want to deliver. Usually environmental groups can't afford people with that expertise, the oil companies and other polluters can.
Your skills as they are might actually give a certain level of sophistication to the environmentalists...
Also, much of what these organizations do is outreach, grass roots building for volunteers, fund raising... typically they have a routine or a set of things that they do to train volunteers to do such things and heighten awareness. But again, it's not sophisticated, you might be able to offer observing and looking at the routine and the training and tweaking it with your skills and knowledge about human interactions to make it smoother and more effective.
Finally, and this is unfortunately, many groups suffer from limited affect due to internal politicing. Whether you beleive in conspiracies that feds infiltrate these groups to start those kinds of problems, or maybe that they are natural problems politically that arise anywhere that people function as a group... most large companies hire people with a similar knowledge base to you to deal with culture problems, conflict resolution, training groups of other volunteers on how to resolve conflicts. The result of someone like that being in a large environmental group might be dramatic, more efficient, less infighting, higher rate of retention of volunteers, better morale.
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Thu, August 24, 2006 - 11:37 AM"Do you think perhaps that you might have the skills already that are needed to work with a large envirnomental organization which might need someone like you? "
Schmend-ROCK
thanks for your response. i don't know much about big corporations and what they do to manipulate the public (ie: the advertisers, etc). it makes sense tho, what you write.
its probable that i do have some good skills they could use. and just to be able to work in a place where they have a consciousness around protecting/supporting the earth would be so enriching. i have no idea how to go about finding out tho
hmmm
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Thu, August 24, 2006 - 12:21 AMHey Marcia...
Something I notice is how INFJs are so "big picture" sometimes that they only think in radical terms. For instance, one of my coaching clients fantasizes about quitting his job outright and seeing what happens, because that's how frustrated he feels. When I suggest taking "baby steps" (wincing all the while at the "What About Bob?" association), he grumbles and doesn't want to go there. Too much detail. It's ALL OR NOTHING. There's no in-between.
I've offered him the metaphor of having a beautiful garden. Our iNtuition conceives of this lush garden in a split second. Can you see it in your mind's eye? But, in order to make the dream a reality, we have to get down in the dirt with our extraverted Sensing. Eue! We have to buy seeds, plant them in the dirt, water them, care for them, weed them, and just plain WAIT until they naturally and organically sprout and bloom into this glorious garden that we've envisioned.
And here's the thing -- it isn't about having the garden; it's about becoming a gardener. That's the important thing. Isn't it? It's about who you're being when you nurture this garden. It's about having integrity with yourself.
Now, we all have a natural resistance to integrating our inferior processes. I get that. I struggle with that issue myself. But I accept that it's the only way to get from a glorious garden idea to a glorious garden the real thing.
SO... (drumroll, as if you can't possibly anticipate my next sentence) -- what are some "baby steps" you could take toward your passion? If it's entertainment, howzabout some community theatre to get started? Or just an acting class? If it's environmental, maybe you could hang out with Tree People, or volunteer around a National Park. Take time to do some brainstorming and find an entry point for yourself. You're a smart lady. There must be some place to stick your big toe in the water.
Since this topic is something you feel energy around, find a way to connect with this passion in some concrete form, even if it is minor or peripherally related. (Have you seen the movie "Shopgrl"? Being a receptionist in an art gallery was closer to her dream than working in Saks!)
Marcia, I get it that you are DYING at work. And I hear that you have a strong sense of values, and tremendous respect for the environment. You've shown amazing willpower and persistence just by sticking it out where you are right now.
What I want for you is to be connected with whatever brings you life, gives you energy. Even if it's not some miraculous job transformation like we all fantasize about, a seemingly insignificant shift of this kind will open you up to new possibilities, new people -- AND you may soon find a path opening up before you that you can't even dream of right now.
Be sure to tell people around you what you want (never what you don't want!). Just as you have done here, boldly claim [however it's true for you], "I want to work with environmental issues" to anyone and everyone who will listen.
I dare you.
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Thu, August 24, 2006 - 11:43 AM"SO... (drumroll, as if you can't possibly anticipate my next sentence) -- what are some "baby steps" you could take toward your passion? If it's entertainment, howzabout some community theatre to get started? Or just an acting class? If it's environmental, maybe you could hang out with Tree People, or volunteer around a National Park. "
thanks for responding vicky jo.
i don't want to be an entertainer, more like a manager of a band or......i don't know. just something involved in making people smile and enjoy themselves, instead of being the peson they tell their problems to.
i suppose i could do some volunteer work. but that keeps me in my work environment, which you pointed out was not emotionally healthy. i am at a point in my life where i'm not willing to step backwards in my financial life (done too much low pay work, volunteer work, in my life - i make a good salary now and i just won't walk away from that) - so its really a career change that i'm thinking of, not extra-curricular volunteer work. So i get stuck around the money piece of it - grassroots is great, but that requires keeping the day job. -
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Thu, August 24, 2006 - 12:02 PMMarcia --
here's what I'm hearing in what you say. "It's gotta be all or nothing."
Now I'm not saying just go volunteer and be satisfied with that. What I AM saying is, go volunteer, feel what it's like over there, meet some people doing the work you admire, and from that space new doors will OPEN.
Here are the choices as I see them:
a) keep doing what you're doing (dying)
b) try to jump into something new that you have no prior experience with
c) take baby steps to ease you toward a rewarding transition
Do I have that right? Are there other options in here that I've missed?
So I'm plumping for choice "c." I have this belief that you're better off being IN PROXIMITY to the work you want to do than either DYING or JUMPING.
What courageous efforts are you willing to make to honor your values about the environment? What one thing are you willing to do to make your life different?
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Thu, August 24, 2006 - 12:28 PM"What courageous efforts are you willing to make to honor your values about the environment? "
Well, I implemented a recycling program at both units i've worked at. I don't see it working that well, and often dig through the garbage to put the recycleables in there, if that is what you mean.
"What one thing are you willing to do to make your life different?"
I hear what you are saying, and understand. But taking "baby steps" as you say requires me to stay at a job that is unsatisfying for an undetermined period of time - until years of volunteer work lead to a paying job, say. I have done that, with social work jobs, and once it did lead to a paying job. So i suppose its possible.
In the meantime I'll continue talking to people in the field, going to more events, etc and see what comes up.
Thanks for your encouragement!
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Thu, August 24, 2006 - 1:05 PM"I implemented a recycling program at both units i've worked at. I don't see it working that well, and often dig through the garbage to put the recycleables in there, if that is what you mean."
That's not what I meant, but I love what showed up! Do you want to talk about how to raise the bar on the recycling you've implemented? I'm wondering how you might raise awareness and get more people onboard. How can you enroll more people to join with you?
"taking "baby steps" as you say requires me to stay at a job that is unsatisfying for an undetermined period of time - until years of volunteer work lead to a paying job, say. I have done that, with social work jobs, and once it did lead to a paying job. So i suppose its possible. In the meantime I'll continue talking to people in the field, going to more events, etc and see what comes up.
Whoa whoa whoa! THOSE are baby steps! Talk to people, go to events -- EXACTLY. How can you do more of that? That's exactly what I was pointing at. How can you amplify that?
"Thanks for your encouragement!"
I'm glad I am able to support you in these aspirations. Sometimes it's helpful to have a coach, a "thinking partner," to talk things over with and encourage you in moving forward.
What I get is that you're a smart, resourceful lady, and have a lot going for you. (Just look at what you achieved in implementing that recycling program already!) It sounds as if you are really ready to step into something that matches your passion. Best of luck!
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Re: New Career
Sat, August 26, 2006 - 5:53 AMHmmm,
well, I know one baby step would just be to get involved volunteering first with an environmental organization.
and researching how people apply sociology and psychology do work to help corperations to be more persuasive, so that perhaps you can start by offering to do something small and simple, like proof-read some written materials for an environmental group, making suggestions of things that could be added and such...
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Sun, August 27, 2006 - 12:50 AMI just got introduced tonite to a woman who is called "Green Mary", she lives in the same town I do, and she helps big organizations go green. For example, she is providing the recycling for Michael Franti's Power to the People event down in SF on the 9th.
hmmmmm.
coincidence? chance meeting?
i think not
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Sun, August 27, 2006 - 1:58 AM"Green Mary".......??
Oooooooooooh..... ~Twilight Zone theme~
Sometimes I'm just floored by the miracles that happen when we let the Universe know we want something.
I hope Mary's your new best friend. ;-)
-Vicky Jo, getting shivers down her spine
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Wed, September 12, 2007 - 8:40 AMooh if you want to change something at the dialyse centre, look into Bob Beck and the Kaali patent for blood electrification.
and to think the tech goes back over 100 years - disinfects blood and stops it being infected according to the patent.
now there's a big picture for you.
M
PS: google those words or email me, there's also a tribe on the subject.
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Wed, August 23, 2006 - 9:21 AMKaren:
I'm a JCDC, which means Job and Career Development Coach. Here are some resources I can point you to:
1) I offer some inexpensive career assessment materials on my website at
www.typeinsights.com/Assessm...m#career
2) I have a page on my website specifically about INFJs and careers. It may give you some food for thought:
www.INFJ.com/INFJ_Careers.htm
3) Here's an exercise that some people have found useful. Look over the books on your bookshelf. What is it that you spend time reading and thinking about, even though nobody pays you? That's where your passions lie, and it's a Big Clue about what kind of career you would find fulfilling.
I'd love to hear what you discover!
-Vicky Jo
www.TypeInsights.com
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Wed, August 23, 2006 - 9:53 AMThanks Shmendrick and Vicky
I just seem so unhappy with what I am doing right now. I am divoriced and my two children live part time with me and part time with their dad. Due to struggling with depression I ended up giving him residential custody. So I have to pay him child support. I am remarried so my husband is supportive but my child support is my responsibility to pay. So I need to work while I am going to school. I guess I am letting fear get the better of me. I know that staying at my place is soooooooooooooo unhealthy for me. There is an extreme amount of stress. I used to love to come into work but now I dread it!!!! Perhaps it is the crazy corporate world and their push for the oh might dollar. It kills me!!!
Vicky
Thanks for the suggestion about what kind of books I read is my passion. The only thing is if you saw my house you would realize that we have shelf after shelf filled with a variety of books on all different topics. My husband and I both love learning and reading up on all types of things. My passion is on self-help, buddism, yoga, exercising... I guess things that help. That's why I thought Massage Therapy might be a good profession.
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Wed, August 23, 2006 - 10:16 AMIf massage therapy appeals to you, I suggest you try it out! Massage everybody you know. Trade massages for meals, jewelry, favors. Barter your heart out, or just give it away. If, after [say] a month of that, if you still love it -- keep it up! If you're sick of it and never want to touch another human being again, maybe it wasn't so great after all.
I also hear that you're in kind of a bad place. Fear is not a place to come from when making important life decisions. So what choice could you make about your life that come from love, choosing love?
-Vicky Jo
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Sat, August 26, 2006 - 10:14 AMLast year, I decided i'd had enough of the dying feeling - and I decided to quit my job and go back to school for what had become my part time job/hobby all the time I was working a 'real job' - photography.
I didn't just quit immediately however, logistically I couldn't do that. My heart wanted out. NOW. But I have a partner, we have expenses, I have two prior degrees. What then? I researched schools for 6 months. I got very very educated on my credit and the immense loans I'd be taking out to not work and to go to school. I got a management job at the apartment my partner and I lived at so that my portion of the rent would be covered...
And I finally got there. I am now in school for photography. I"m 10 years older than all the other students, I have 2-3x more expenses. I feel terrified every single day at the debt I'm facing...
But, I am happy. I just have the feeling deep insdie that this is IT. and the sacrifices of being away from my family and my friends, and the challenge of being in an environment I don't exactly flourish in (school) has been really really amazing.
So my $0.02 is do it. But listen to your J self and find a legitimate new path and channel for your energy, and organized and responsible approach to your dreams. Accepting a placebo will only make the anxiety worse later, and doing it hastily or without pre-planning will cause you stress and the potential to doubt your decisions.
Good luck Karen.
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Sat, August 26, 2006 - 10:26 AMThe moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~Goethe
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I honor your courage! Fear runs so many of us, and having the guts to step up and make a change like that is brave and daring. Most of us don't even get past the fantasy stage.
INFJs have a real need to "actualize" their dreams. Bravo to you for actually navigating the complex challenges and pulling it off! Kudos to you for Finding A Way.
Here's to your radical success.
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Sat, August 26, 2006 - 5:32 PMI'm glad you liked it!
It's often truncated to read:
"'Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
The entire passage reads thus:
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
Goethe is usually cited as the author, but it seems it was actually a paraphrase of sorts by W. H. Murray. See www.goethesociety.org/pages/q...com.html for the whole story.
I love this quote for coaching. It's a "coach in a quote!" ;-D
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Sun, September 9, 2007 - 11:12 AMWoah thats like smacking me in the back of the head saying "hey! thats you!"
Since i've gotten out of the navy, i've been bouncing around trying to figure out what i want to do, i've always wanted to be a psychologist/therapist, but the amount of schooling required held me back. Plus because of my performance in highschool i though i just wasn't good at school. When i took a semeseter at college, i realized..."wait a minute, i'm doing well and i am smart!" Apparently if you try...you do well....who would have thunk it?!? hehe.
So I'm going to be starting a job tomorrow...hopefully it'll be good enough to where i can stand working there for a couple years. The HR lady and i get along well! hehe. And i think i will go back to school for psychology, just taking a couple classes to see how it will go while working full time, and hopefully be able to take more next semester.
You people are awsome!
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Sat, August 26, 2006 - 11:32 PMHey Thanks for posting that Goethe quote...
It is one of my All time Favorites.
More people NEED to see it....
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Mon, August 28, 2006 - 9:09 AMWyoming
Thanks for the inspiration! I know it will be difficult to work and go to school but I have made the decision to do it. Now the only decision I have to make is to go to school during the day and work at night or work during the day and go to school at night. Ackkkkkkkk
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Mon, August 28, 2006 - 9:22 AMgood for you Karen! I can't wait to hear how its going once you are enrolled!
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Re: New Career
Mon, August 28, 2006 - 11:15 AMYayyyyyy!!!
Over here, I love the shiver of excitement I got at your proclamation! It feels like stagnated energy is flowing again, and you're re-connecting with your power. It's thrilling and inspiring.
How can we (I?) support you moving forward??
-Vicky Jo ;-)
www.TypeInsights.com
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Re: New Career
Mon, November 20, 2006 - 12:15 PMI'm new to this board and just wanted to add that I've also had a hard time deciding on a career. I've had different jobs, but there was nothing that seemed like a good long-term fit. I've never considered becoming a massage therapist and don't think that would really be something I'd enjoy, but if that's something you're interested in, it might not be a bad idea.
I did my undergraduate degree in psychology and am now in grad school for a different but related field. I hope this leads to good things careerwise!
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Re: New Career
Wed, August 1, 2007 - 9:08 AMKaren,
I just wanted to see how you are getting along. I just joined. I am on the path to a new career. 27yrs old, on campus with a bunch of smarty pants who could care less about the education they are getting, well atleast most of them are like that. I toyed with the idea of Massage Therapy school, but I realized I cannot commit to the full holistic(sp?) lifestyle. When I do give back massages my shoulders and hands get tense, so it's no good for me to do full time.
Anyway, I am getting a business degree -major in management (for stability) with a minor in psychology (because thats easy for me). Then I want to go onto grad school for Advertising.
My part time job right now is alright because it involves organizing, which I enjoy. But I want to travel. i want to be creative and want to interject my ideas where I see fit for wherever it is I work. So I thinkadvertising would be good.
take care,
Donna
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Re: New Career
Fri, May 9, 2008 - 4:33 AMHI, Karen. I'm there with you. Left the military. Attending grad school now for Writing. I actually am also torn exactly what I want to do: either writing, teaching english as a foreign language, doing something in film or theater, travel counselor. Hard to say. I do know I want to do it in New Zealand. I visited the place and loved it immensely.
I feel the most uplifted between the film stuff and the teaching english stuff. So maybe that's an avenue: teach english while pursuing film or something on the side.
Massage therapy: Have you tried Thai massage? If you ever get to cisit Thailand, there are plenty of places (espcially in Bangkok and CHiangmai) that cna give lessons on the cheap.
