Nothing in Nature Blooms All year, A Career Perspective

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“Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year.” – Author Unknown

It is not uncommon to want to change jobs, careers, industries or even positions within the same company. Often decisions like this are made for us. A company can cause an uprooting via a furlough or layoff. Life circumstances such as health issues or supporting aging parents can temporarily transplant us from the paid workforce.

In resume or LinkedIn terms it can become a gap. A gap can be a period of time in between things. It could also be thought of as a hole or an empty spot in garden terms. Gaps, holes, empty places, unexplained pauses are not always viewed as a good thing. They can seem unsightly and permanent. It can be a challenging time to supplant a familiar routine, identity and income for a new and unfamiliar landscape.  It can be a season of lost hope with no sign of budding or new life. Alternatively, this can become an invitation to think differently. It can be a stimulating and exciting time. The old plant has been removed. The growing plant has been pruned. The pot-bound tree is released. Garden lexicons show us the way to space, time, hopefulness and meaningful work.

How might this look if we were to describe it on a resume or on LinkedIn as a job entry? Read on to see my own unique landscaped version.  I hope you will be inspired and energized whether you are uprooting, transplanting, pot-bound or redesigning the landscape of your career.

EXCEPTIONAL CAREER LANDSCAPES

Personal Growth Architect

March 2021 - Present

• Designs a career research environment that is emotionally intelligent and incorporates time to learn, research, connect, pause, collect ideas, design and distill thereby providing opportunity for weeding, repotting, pruning, and beautiful growth.

• Takes leadership responsibility for individualized and new hybrid variety of career research.

• Cultivates opportunities by extensive organization, relationship and analytical skills to intentionally excavate a new career role.

• Harvests data on companies, industries and trends.

• Builds a trellis of tracking for dates, activities and personal networks.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” – The Talmud