I am taking a class through WomenVenture called Career & Life Planning. I have session 3 tomorrow night and I just finished up my homework for class. The first two-and-half sessions are all about self-assessment. The goal is to understand your values, personal characteristics, strengths, skills/knowledge and interests and what possible careers might be best suited with that profile.
This has been a very interesting exercise. As I go through the evaluations, there are some definite trends and not necessarily what I expected. Relationships are the overwhelming theme for me. When things are positive and successful, there is always strong relationships built on a common goal, common understanding and integrity & trust. At those time in my life that things took a turn for the worse, those relationships were lacking. The other key trend was meaningful work with a defined value. When the value of the work was understood, things seemed to go a lot better for me than when it was always in question. I know both of these probably seem like common sense, but it is amazing how demoralizing work can be when these are missing every day.
I am also realizing how much I need balance in my life. For so long I have let my life be so heavily weighted with work and while I am pretty lopsided right now in the other direction, I do not see that pendulum swinging all the way back again. Funny that with distance, there are other things that are so much more important. Today was a combination of an awesome workout at the gym with Jeremy and doing my crafty projects. At the gym today, I was working the elliptical next to this woman and it was really motivating to try and keep up with her. I amy try to time my workouts with her going forward.
The road to self-discovery continues...
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