[Charl S]

I am looking for another job because I am incredibly unhappy where I am now. Problem is, I am in a field that is not my passion - at all! So I feel so demotivated looking for something else because it feels like it will just be more of the same. Depression has made it so hard for me to set goals, and at the moment I am struggling to make it day by day. I know I am lucky to even have a job as there are people out there who don't and would love to be in my position. I feel so guilty for wanting more.

I am so tired of just working like a slave and feel like I have no future. I also want to be excited about going to work in the morning. I want to have a career not just another job. I am so ashamed that I have ruined my life the way I have. I feel so stuck, trapped in a corner with no way out.

I wish there was a way I can get rid of my depression and start living my life with enthusiasm. I can't even find something to look forward to today.

[gayleggg]

I understand. I was a stay at home mom for years and missed getting on the career track. I got a job I loved and didn't think it would end but it did. Had a lot of similar jobs and been very happy until three years ago when I made a move and can't find a job for my skills. For the first time in my life I'm at a place where I don't have a job I like and it's not going to get better. It's boring! Not what I'm used to but my age is giving me some problem in getting to be taken seriously. I'm getting too close to retirement for anyone to want to invest any time on me. I feel stuck, too.

And like you I suffer from depression which makes it hard to have the energy to do anything about it. I hope your depression lifts, mine is finally I think getting better. So there is hope.

[Perna]

I learned a great deal from this online book: Barbara Sher's Wishcraft

When I was in a boring, going nowhere job out of school, I used the time to look around me and see that there were a whole lot of jobs around me I could look at and imagine myself in to see if they fit. All companies have lots of different types of tasks, administrative, financial, transportation, sales, corporate, customer service and just wandering around the store (I worked at Sears & Roebuck :-) there were lots of different departments with different kinds of products, all with their own needs (furniture department, appliances, clothing, automotive). At one point I was discussing moving to the security department but a car fell off a lift in the automotive garage as I was being interviewed by the security department head and he had to leave in a hurry

Look around you and at least move sideways into a field or product that interests you. Clerical, sales, or customer service background can work just about anywhere. Once you are more closely aligned, then you can look at how to move up, whether you need to save for additional schooling or just put in your time and work hard for a few years.