HI! I’m so happy you’re enjoying my Blog! Thanks for the feedback and compliment, it made my day!
I’m also happy that you could relate to this post…I think it’s an important topic that not many people discuss.

More and more as we are all evolving on this planet we are being blessed with so many different career choices.
We have far more opportunities and possibilities for doing work we enjoy and are well paid for doing.
But with that can come conflicts and uncertainty as our parents came from a generation where people stayed with one career their entire lifetime,
and they sometimes don’t understand why we need to be inspired, fulfilled, and connected in our career.

So, I just want everyone to know that there’s nothing wrong with sudden career changes and there’s nothing wrong with you if you are exploring
a lot of different careers out there. We are young and “LIfe is too short, or too damn long to be doing something that causes you great suffering and restriction.”

Thank you for your wonderful comment! At the time I’m “quitting” a career that doesn’t resonate, I’m thinking I have to just cut my losses–So thank you for acknowledging my courage!
There’s nothing wrong with being cautious and looking out for blind spots…I think you have a great transition style and it has its advantages!

What if you find the kind of job you want in your favorite city? What if you get the job AND it’s a higher salary AND it’s in your favorite city? What if the job matches your exact talents and skills? What if all of this comes easy to you simply because you launch that rocket of desire and let go of your limiting beliefs and fear?

From the way you wrote your comment, it doesn’t look like you are “being a fraud”. Knowledge and prolific creation (creating lots and lots of things to add to your portfolio) are what have helped me counteract the “impostor complex”. Keep creating and you’ll dissolve this limiting belief that you’re a fraud!

Happy sqooshing

I feel like I negotiate all the time, like I am much more cautious about my approach to making big changes. I like to have multiple plans in place before I make a leap just so that I try to minimize the chances of complete and abject failure. But in the process, I think this limits me from dreaming even larger…. sometimes in taking greater risks you also have chances for greater and bigger rewards.

In my case for example, I have taken small, modular steps to change my career from engineer to 3D artist. I suppose it keeps me sane and less likely to just completely miss my mark, but at the same time, maybe I could have gotten here much sooner. I chose to goto grad school for 2 years to learn these skills, whereas if I had taken perhaps a year of a parttime job and then self-taught myself many of these skills, I might have been able to jump in sooner. There are benefits to me having done what I did (like creating contacts in my industry in New York), and disadvantages (such as a big student loan and loss of income/retirement savings for a few years). Its hard to tell at this point what would have been better.

Even now, as I contemplate my next step (making a huge move across the country) its hard for me to imagine that I could just leap “right now” and find a job right away. I don’t know if I could just move there and find any work at all… I don’t really know any people in my industry there, or should I attempt to find a job while still working here and only move once I’ve found that new job. Its a hard decision, and harder still since my industry is pretty competitive. My fear of not being able to get up on my feet right away is holding me back, and making me hesitate… although I think I’m better able now to recognize that and overcome that on a timetable that’s comfortable for me. The other thoughts I have are the what ifs…. what if I can’t find the job that suits me, or what if I dont have the skills for the exact job I want and I have to start at a lower level than I think I deserve? What if I’m not good enough to get to the company I want be working at?

As for limiting my own creative self-expression, these type of fears also play on my security of my own skill level as an artist. I let myself consider these what-ifs and that limits my exploration of what I *am* really capable of as an artist…. am I just a computer artist or am I really able to also draw and paint and *see* things beautifully? Am I a fraud? lol… still working on that sometimes… I need to give myself more credit and I don’t really always. I feel like self-confidence is also important to how my coworkers view me, and that if I express insecurity, then unfortunately they will also see me through my own lens of insecurity and thus doubt my skills as well…. which would be really unfortunate!!