Anonymous Turmoiler: Career Conundrum

Life is everything but a linear path.

I’ve learned this the hard way over the past two years. Immediately after graduating with an extremely marketable major and background, I landed a job that would serve as an exceptional trampoline into my professional career. Well, unfortunately due to specific circumstances, I transferred occupations. 

In this new role, I constantly worried about whether or not I would ever grow as fast as I would have in my past job; it ate away at me for months.

However, after many months in my new job, I realized the progression I’ve made since I’ve started. I realized that there were things I learned about myself that I would have never learned if I hadn’t move jobs. I recently stumbled upon a quote by Jim Carrey and it could not be more applicable to my recent past. It goes like this:

“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”

These simple words have helped me understand that the only things that you should give a shit about are the things that you actually can control. So my advice to everyone reading this is to stop worrying about the past because you’re still young and you have the power to change you’re mistakes, and don’t obsess about the future because you have no control over what comes next...