Being over a job or a specific role within a company can sometimes cloud our better judgment. Sometimes we’re so miserable that our misery is hard to understand. And then we start wondering if we are so done with our work and our field, or if we are just so done with our company.

Before you jump ship and take a job that offers a similarly unfulfilling environment, hit the breaks and reflect. I want you to know that this dilemma comes up a lot when I talk to women. They are often undervalued and under stimulated at work and they are wondering if this means they have exhausted their opportunity for fulfillment in their line of work. I’m here to tell you that your future is not this bleak. 

First, if you are in this boat and job descriptions for similar work at different organizations don’t get you excited, then you may be done with this specific work. But that doesn’t mean you need to change your line of work entirely. Easy does it. There is a middle ground that often gets overlooked by people in this predicament. 

Stay in your field

+ apply your experience 

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= do something more interesting than what you are currently doing

If it’s time for you to move, think outside the box. Are you in PR and want to shift to marketing? Are you a teacher and want to switch to educational app development? Once you have a few years of experience doing what you studied to do, you can take your skills and education and keep on working in your field but from a different angle, solving new but related problems—even higher level ones. Remember that you are eligible for this new type of work but you’ll have to get a little more creative looking outside the box for relevant roles that both excite you and demand the valuable skill set you’ve been cultivating all this time.