Do careers have an expiration date?
Hello again fellow readers,
I wanted to discuss this topic because I feel myself going through a change. I think that maybe, just maybe, others have gone through it too. So I find myself feeling like I’m slowly but surely drifting away from fashion. In case you don’t know, I’m a fashion journalist, and I write for various online media pertaining to fashion. Well, I’ve worked in fashion since 2003, and now I feel like I’m slowly getting board with it. I wonder if anyone out there has ever been working in a field they love for years, then all of a sudden feel burnt out. I think that maybe it’s me constantly working and seeing the same thing year after year, so now I’m board. Or maybe since I’ve worked in fashion behind the scenes, it just doesn’t seem that glamorous to me anymore? I’m part of the small group of people who actually went to school for what they do. You know, some people go to college, and then work in a field completely different from what they majored in. Maybe what I want do now, could be ingratiated with fashion? The focus won’t be entirely fashion though. As you can tell from my site, there’s more I’d like to write about. I wanna make a difference in people’s lives. Helping people find confidence and teaching them how to love themselves is a more worthwhile goal to me. So, that’s why I ask:
Do careers have an expiration date?
Is it normal to feel this way about something you love doing?
Or are careers temporary until you get tired of them and move on to the next?
I’m still going to use my knowledge of fashion in my site; I do have a category for it. I can’t help thinking my change in career focus is also a change in my views on life. Maybe fashion isn’t everything…..Did I just say that?!!!
Anyway, let me know what you think by commenting below :)
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Jon jon 411
Of course there is a expiration date. Some people come to the realization that what they want is not what they are doing.
Neah B
I think they can either expire or shift. I love the Culinary Arts and wanted to launch my own catering company but after awhile I realized I don’t want my weekends tied up and not be able to cater my personal events or do the other things I love to do. So I just shifted my love for cooking into recipe writing and eventually a weekly cooking show.