Moving on to Plan B

“Concentrating on the good aspects of your current job — the reasons you chose it in the first place — can help you go from feeling like a victim to someone who’s actually in control of the situation,” Cora advises. In addition, she recommends thinking of ways you can bring what interests you about a Plan B career into your current position: “If you’ve always wanted to start something from scratch, look for ways that you can head up a new project within your company.”

Psychology Today has a piece about that itch people get to quit their jobs and go to Plan B — Plan B being that thing they’ve always wanted to do. The bit of advice of finding ways to get excited again about the job you already have, is helpful — unlike the examples the writer chose to illustrate this story: financial analyst becoming a blogger, engineer becoming a teacher, lawyer becoming an actor, and equities trader becoming a documentary filmmaker. These are all people in high-paying jobs who built a cushion for themselves to pursue something else they loved. Sure, if you have money, it’s much easier to try a new career path. But what if you’re not in a high-paying job? I would have loved to see an example of how a dental assistant pursued his or her Plan B career.

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