In his book, Getting Unstuck, Dr. Timothy Butler, Senior Fellow of Business Administration and Director of Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School, masterfully describes the stages of a career crisis and how to overcome one. I have listened to his podcast on Harvard Ideacast and read summaries, but must confess I have not read the book just yet. I am ordering it today.
The most important lesson I personally learned from the cast is that there is indeed a silver lining in experiencing a career crisis. Why is that you may think? Well, it is a moment of awakening. Like someone crippled by stress, recognizing the symptoms and causes are a start,the start of the recovery process. You then need to take the necessary steps to deal with it. Easier said than done, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Instead of wallowing in the fact that we may hate to go back to work on Monday or that routines are killing us, we need to recognize the feeling of impasse and stagnation, identify the origin and causes of discomfort and, most importantly take steps to make changes to correct the situation. These feelings are not going to go away and will keep coming back like every Sunday comes and goes. The world around us will not change for us; change starts with us.
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