I am a nurse. In some years, there is a great nursing shortage, and I am able to pick and choose where I want to work. The future is bright for me. In other years, there is a nursing surplus, and I have less career selections, but am able to use that time to “move up the ladder” in an organization.
In years when there is a nursing shortage, I am able to make more money. With more money, I can save, or buy “extra” things, or take trips. By staying within an organization, with my degrees, I am able to advance in to management positions.
Take chances when there is a shortage, and go for more money. At the same time, moving up in an organization also will allow for more money. Continue to get additional education to improve myself, learn more, and have additional skills that employers look for.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with your career future. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Your Career Future
- Finding a career path, it is frustrating because i don’t know what i would like to do
- What is my career path? What should I be doing? I want a career that would allow me to have a positive impact on someone else’s life.
- Prepare for a career guidance workshop. Too much information and work
- Decipher which career path was most fitting for me. I enjoy doing numerous things and really can not identify with one path.
- Managing family vs. career. I need to work to support my family, but am torn because it takes me away from my family.
- How do you choose a career path when you have so many areas that interests you but none of the areas are anything you are really passionate about?
- How do I know if the career I choose is the right one? How do I get to know the purporse of my life?
- Figuring out my next career move when finding out layoffs are a possibility with a new merger that took place. I am feeling frustrated because I am lacking the confidence in my career and this is causing me distress when asking myself, “what’s next?”
- Trying to mulitask job, career, and church and be able to keep my cool.
- Trying to figure out what career direction is best for me. Feeling overwhelmed with appointments.
- What am I good at? what am I bad at? in life, career, and how can I change?
- I’ve recently had to admit to myself that the career I thought I was “born” to do isn’t suited to me at all.
- As of now i’m not sure where i’m heading in my career with my current profile….not sure whats next or way forward and what will my career path be.
- I am retired, but always enjoyed what I did in my career.
- Trying to decide what is my next step in figuring out a career. This is frustrating because I feel like I am lost and it will effect the rest of my life.
- Ive had to decide where im going to be living to start my new career.
- The most frustrating thing I had to do is make a decision on a career choice. It is really hard with the many possibilities out there in the world.
- Did not find a job becauseI had no idea what way should I go in my career path
- I am currently in school trying to figure out what I need to do for a career.
- At work I was not able to speak up honestly about what exactly I wish to do with my career plan after baby.
- Trying to stay at my current job and not leave for a higher paying job that is not my career. Waiting for one year to pass..
- I am afraid and it is difficult to find the motivation. I am revising my resume and changing careers.
- I have been very frustrated in finding my motivation for accomplishing superior work. I am having trouble finding the end game to what I am doing in my career.
- Dealing with unwarrented termination has caused significant stress and frustration as I attempt to gather the paperwork needed to apply for unemployment and discover what my next career steps are.
- Deciding how to make my current career work for me financially, deciding if I should continue with it or find a new career and if so what will I be good at and still be passionate about it. It is fustrating because I absolutely love what I do it just doesn’t afford me to live.
- In the past few days the most frustrating thing I have had to do at home was to search for a job. Being an entry level opportunity seeker in my field it has not been easy to search for the right job and make an impact. Since, I decided to make a career transition I have been finding it difficult to adjust to sitting idle at home.
- My forty-five year old daughter, living alone with social services support, continues to shut me out of her life while I put my heart and soul into trying to help her overcome complex post traumatic stress and anxiety disorders with both my personal and financial support. I am on the verge of giving up this support as I am about to turn eighty years old and living in along term care home after a successful career in social services as a chief operating officer.
- My parents do not necessarily think I can make a solid career out of what I am currently doing. They look at more of the financial aspect of my career, and question whether or not I will be able to provide a solid foundation for myself. I think I could make a solid career out of the position I am in now, and the frustrating aspect is that I do not think my parents are than open minded mainly because my current career is not what they ideally wanted for me.
- Struggle with Algebra. It was frustrating because no matter how hard I try this part of math is just NOT who I am. Also frustrating and relates to the first “Strengths Assessment” I do not see the need for this class as I am 65 and have NEVER needed this information to solve any math problem. Everyone on earth does not want to be a rocket scientist or need Algebra. Also I already struggle through this class 2 years ago. To complete math I took an accounting class that made much more sense for my own career goal. I do not understand why I had to once again take an Algebra class.
- The most frustrating task of my past few days has been dealing with a disheartening realization. I fell into my occupation my default. Instead of choosing a career I enjoy, a job I hate chose me. I go to work everyday because not going to work would mean homelessness. The shame of failure isn’t a motivation, to me it’s a scare tactic I find myself barely escaping everyday.
- The most frustrating thing I faced was the moment when I got 2 options of career path. I had to choose between a job that related to my education background and another job that was not related to my education background but offered me a new challenge for my personal learning and growth process which would sharpen my softskills rather than my hardskills.
- The most frustrating thing in my life is a like a vast majority of things, I love challenge, but have never had the opportunity to challenge myself, and I simply cannot CHOOSE what I want to do career-wise. I feel I have the energy, the drive, and the will to learn, but don’t know what I want to focus on doing. It is extremely frustrating because it makes me regret important decisions in life.
- The most fustrating thing for me , is that I am unable to concentrate on anything much longer, I don’t enjoy my work , I never enjoyed studing also. I am always asking myself what is it that I want to do, what are my strenght , what really comes naturally to me. I want to choose a career that I would enjoy doing , which would make me feel that I was born to do it, in search of such answers I am always fustrated because time is flying by and I am unable to find my core strenght and the right career to match it with