Squiggly Shortcut: 3 Ways to Feel Less Stuck When Work Feels Uncertain

Hi, you're listening to one of our Squiggly shortcuts. These episodes are designed to be super short and easy for you to action so you can fit lots of learning into your week. And today I want to talk about how to respond when work is feeling really uncertain. And we're getting lots of feedback from our Squiggly Careers community that this is quite a lot of people's reality right now. Whether that's because of the economic environment or because of changes in roles, because of technology, lots of people are feeling a little bit uncertain about their work.

And the risk is that in a context of uncertainty, people feel like they've not got a lot of control, they feel a little bit stuck, they start to feel like it's a knotty moment in their squiggly career that they don't know what to do with. And we always want you to feel like you've got control over your career. development. It can be hard to feel like you've got complete control over your career. We want you to feel like you've got choices and options and you can create some control in your career development.

So three ways in which you can respond if your work is feeling a little bit naughty, a little bit uncertain right now. The first thing is to focus on what you do know. So in uncertain situations, it can be easy to worry about all the things that we don't know. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know what people will think.

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