We’ve all heard about – and perhaps lived – the fact that the modern reality of work means that people are and will continue to change not just their jobs but their careers. 

While I think I’m about on my 3rd or 4th profession at this point in my late-30’s, I’ve realized that while my work or profession has changed, my avocation has not:

I work with individuals or groups to help them define their issue or problem, and create and implement their own answers.

It’s a definition that sums up my best skills, from my work with kids as an outdoor educator, to a member of a diabetes research team, to a community health organizer, to a manager and supervisor, to a professional coach.

I’m a facilitator of ideas and action.  And others see and count on these skills too: a collaborator of mine told me recently I was her  "catalyst". 

What I know is that these qualities, these values of mine, will stay with me regardless of what work I do, and that they are my real job in life. 

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So, what is your real work in life?
What do others count on you for?

When I was a senior in college, I scored a radio show on the college radio station.  While  we were supposed to have a format, in reality DJs could play whatever records (vinyl!) we wanted to play.  The only real requirement was to announce the station call letters and frequency now and then, and play […]