Unsure Of Career Direction
Or What My True Path Is

by Jo
(London, UK)

I left a successful career in marketing in the entertainment (DVD/ Video) industry a while ago, mainly to do with the politics and a couple of big relationship endings.

I have taken various temp jobs as I need to pay the bills, and now feel stuck in these jobs which I find dull and dead-end.

Agencies find me the work, and I would love to take a proper break to explore new avenues, but need the money so am finding I am going from one thing to another and am now completely confused about where to go, and have lost confidence in my ability to succeed and make meaningful work decisions!

I feel I have abilities to succeed in most areas I put my mind to, but can't seem to focus and decide on what my true path is or where I want to go in the long term.

Please can you help?

Suggestions

Thanks for submitting your question about making a career change, Jo, and please accept my apologies for taking so long to get back to you. I have recently located to another country.

First of all, you mention you "left a successful career because of politics and a couple of relationship endings". Have you used EFT to clear your emotional charge on each of those issues? If you haven't it's important you do, but apply EFT to each specific event separately.

As far as your current feelings and confusion about what you want to do are concerned, here are a few suggestions to get you started.

EFT Set-up Statements For Fear And Confusion Around Making a Career Change

Tapping continuously on the karate chop point, repeat the following (but please change the statements to suit how you feel):

"Even though I feel stuck in these temp jobs, they're so dull and boring and are taking me nowhere, but I have to pay the bills so what else can I do, I accept my feelings anyway.

Even though I had a successful career in marketing but I couldn't take the politics and now look at me -- I feel a bit angry and resentful about that and I'm confused and fearful about what to do now, but I deeply and completely love and accept myself anyway.

Even though I feel like I've lost my confidence and the ability to succeed completely, I can't even make meaningful work decisions any more, no wonder I feel stuck, but I'm open to the possibility of finding a solution that will allow me to explore new avenues, and I deeply and completely love and accept myself and this internal conflict."

Next tap through all the EFT points using the reminder phrase "career change fear and confusion". Then do a number of rounds venting, saying exactly what you're thinking and feeling at each of the tapping points. Just keep tapping and venting until it feels less intense.

Then do another round on "remaining career change fear and confusion" and try and get it to a zero. Also ask yourself "what does this remind me of" and apply EFT to anything that comes up.

Remember to take a note of anything that comes to mind as you're tapping through this too, even if it doesn't seem related, so you can work on that later. Use the same process to clear each of those "big relationship endings" as well. And if you get intense and upset, just keep tapping through the points until you feel calmer.

I hope this helps.