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03 · Where You’re Stuck

Work and Career

When the job that used to fit doesn’t anymore.

What it looks like

What being stuck at work actually looks like.

Being stuck in your career rarely looks like one big decision. It looks like staying a year longer than you meant to, telling yourself it’s temporary, and quietly talking yourself out of applying for a new position in the company, asking for a promotion, or leaving. Many people in this spot already know something is wrong. What they don’t have is a way to separate what’s actually true about the job from what fear is telling them about the risk of changing it.

Where to start

The techniques that help most here.

Every category on Where You’re Stuck connects back to the same eleven techniques. These are the ones Bill reaches for most often in this one.

If there’s a specific fear behind the indecision, name it with Fear Mapping. If you keep fixing symptoms instead of the actual problem, start with The Source Question.

03 Fear MappingName what you’re actually afraid of, so you can tell it apart from what’s true about the job.
04 The Source QuestionTrace the problem back to where it actually starts, not where it shows up.
07 The Choice of ThreeBuild three real directions to try, each with a first step you can take this week.
Common questions

Good to know.

How do you know if you’re stuck at work or just going through a rough patch?

A rough patch tends to pass on its own. Being stuck usually means the same complaint keeps showing up, month after month, without anything changing about how you’re responding to it.

Do I need to know my next job before I can move?

No. The first step usually isn’t a new job description. It’s getting honest about what’s actually not working in the current one.

Often, not always

What else this tends to bring up.

This isn’t about being similar. It’s about what shows up in the same season, in Bill’s experience. If more than one of these fits right now, that’s normal, not a sign you’re more stuck than usual.

What people find

“My creative process had stagnated. Bill helped me identify what contexts allowed me to successfully create in the past and helped me create simple steps to get my process going again.”

Christopher L.