A short YouTube "#shorts" conversation (created/uploaded by Matthew Kelly on May 22, 2023) in which two speakers discuss leaving corporate banking for more meaningful work. The speaker reflects that while banking provided good pay and learning, it lacked long-term fulfillment and a clear understanding of personal values and happiness drivers.
You get into banking, I imagine, get on the treadmill, so to speak. When I climb the corporate ladder, you get to a point where you start thinking, I wanted to do something else. Had it always been there and you sort of parked it.
The best way that I could describe it is that I don't think I ever took the time to properly understand myself and understand what my happiness drivers are, what my values were, what I saw my long term goals as, and for a period of time, like I was earning very good money, enjoying stuff fleetingly and learning quite a lot. But then there would also be plateaus within that as well. It got to a point I thought, I can't do this, this forever. It doesn't fill me with. It doesn't make me feel good in what I'm doing.
