Career Transitions

Well, today marks the start of my last week working as a full time, permanent employee at NAB.

Thinking about it on the way in on the train this morning, there's a mixture of excitement about pursuing the opportunity that freelance consulting offers both professionally through broader exposure and also personally through the development of self, managing ambiguity and anxiety, and being innovative to solve solutions that I'm used to calling a help-desk for!

The main consideration has been related to what I need to let go of and what I need to make room for in my life as I jump in the deep end. It makes me think about all the other times we get chucked in the deep end at work and we tend to either sink or swim. I think there's a healthy balance between purposeful strategy and sheer persistence that leads to the favourable outcome of swimming instead of sinking.

So, for me, the next few months will be about working out what 'flotation devices' I need to keep me swimming and making sure that I don't stop kicking and paddling while I'm at it. While I'm at it, I'll work on capturing what's helped with successful transitions in the past and see what can be captured to support others when they find themselves in the deep end...

Watch this space!