Footy Chick wrote:mickey wrote:**Bumping an old thread instead of starting a new one**
After 27 years at the same place, my loyalty has run out, and it's time to make a move.
Applied for a role in a field that is totally unrelated to what i have done since i was 16. I never thought i would have ever had the courage to take a leap out of my comfort zone.
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You're a braver man than I, Mickey. Well done to you.
I'm in exactly the same boat, but am scared shitless of moving jobs, mainly because in the last 3 months, almost every last piece of confidence has been sucked right out of me.
Making a couple of assumptions below, without know the exact differences in our situations.
I think I'm in a similar situation to you, being a good, productive, long term employee and the confidence and the good things you may have done in the past for your employer.
Except mine has been going on for two-three years - my advice is doing something
now, because, believe me, your confidence won't come back and continue to dwindle.
Those positive things you should be happy about and need to emphasise to a new employer and can take to that new job get further and further away in your mind that you can't believe you ever had the skills to do them, you doubt yourself more and more and it becomes almost impossible to write a job application.
Too often we focus on the one or two things in a job ad we might not quite be able to do, not the other 8-10 things we can and have been doing, let alone you other general, transferable work skills.
