Margaret SpenceFounder, The Inclusion Learning Lab · AI Governance Strategy for CHROs | Author, When AI Breaks the Law | SXSW Speaker: Human+AI CoLab and AI Skills Gap for Women | Substack: AI Governance for HR & The Undisruptable Woman

Stuck in Your Career: Discover Your Career Path and Learn How to Thrive

1 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this motivational segment, the speaker addresses individuals who feel trapped in a "career winter"—a period of stagnation, disappointment, and emotional distress at work. Listeners are described as having achieved some things but feeling uncertain, disheartened, and even sick from hating their current roles, colleagues, and organizations. The core insight offered is that the deeper frustration stems not just from the job itself but from a failure to ask for what they truly want, which perpetuates the winter season of their career.

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Many of you are stuck in the career season of winter. You think you've accomplished some stuff. You're not sure that this is what you want. You're, you're a little bit sad. You're showing up to work a little bit disheartened. You're having a lot of heartbreak around the work you're doing, around the people you're working with, about the organization you're connected to, and you are making yourself sick internally because you hate what you're doing. But here's the real thing: you hate the fact that you haven't asked for what you want, and now you're heading into the season of winter.