Journal prompts

1. What specific events or circumstances are prompting you to consider a career change now? 2. Which parts of your current work energize you, and which consistently drain you? 3. What skills, experiences, and resources could you carry into a new career—and what gaps might you need to address? 4. When you imagine staying in your current career for three more years, what feelings arise? What about imagining that you leave? 5. What emotions surface around the uncertainty of changing careers, and what might each emotion be trying to protect or reveal? 6. What do you fear you could lose by making a change—income, status, stability, belonging, expertise, or something else? 7. What beliefs about success, security, age, or “starting over” are shaping your choices? Where did those beliefs come from? 8. Which assumptions about your abilities or options are supported by evidence, and which might be inherited, outdated, or untested? 9. Beyond any job title, who do you want to become through this transition, and what values do you want your work to express? 10. What is one concrete, low-risk action you can take within the next seven days to test a possible direction, and when exactly will you do it?