#12. Confessions of a Job Seeker – Oct. 2012
This series is based on a design journal that I kept between 09/12 – 02/13. New? Start here.

I used to think that being ‘stuck and lost’ meant not being able to figure out what you want or what you should do. I now know that it can also mean losing site of who you are, what you stand for and what you have to offer. For me, this was an unexpected and fairly painful part of the process. Working through it, however, led to one of the core learnings that I’ve gained from this experience:

When we ask ourselves what it is that we want to do, we’re also asking ourselves who it is we want to be and how it is that we want to live in the world.

Very few of the job search / career tools out there address these questions in a holistic manner. Doing so on your own can be an ambiguous process, but I think it’s an important one. When you can articulate how you want to show up as a person and what your criteria are for how you want to live, then you’re much better equipped to make decisions about what it is you should do.