Why I quit a corporate job for coaching ?

3 things I wish I knew 10 years ago about career planning

I resigned from my stable, high paying and successful corporate career last year.

My bedrock for career decisions is my father’s support and advice not to work for money alone and consider additional parameters like health, passion and family life.

Another reason I was able to muster up the courage to resign is that I had done it once earlier as well. I ventured into filmmaking about 10 years back and my latest resignation was last year when I left my job as a CFO to become a leadership coach.

Consider a longer rhythm while planning your career. One consideration which motivated me was to look at what I wanted to do in the years to come. I qualified as a Chartered Accountant when I was 21 years and had already worked as a finance professional for 17 years. With the usual retirement age of 60, I still had about 22 years of working life. What would you like to do to wake up each day with enthusiasm as you go to work?

Each experience counts. I encouraged my creative side as I took up filmmaking. Even though I chose to come back to a corporate finance job after my first sojourn, I was able to add skills like storytelling, and editing. My job of hitherto handling numbers became more enriched with

conveying the story behind them and having meaningful conversations with the marketing teams on scripts, brand identity etc.

What skills would you like to add to your human experience which will warm up your heart?

Your career is as unique as you. Each person has a unique set of abilities and also dreams.

What is important is to follow the path of your liking. As children, we are encouraged to try new things and explore what appeals to us. Growing up we typecast people as per their field of study or job and stop the process of continuous learning.

What can you do to discover your own uniqueness and apply yourself to it without the fear of

judgment or failure?

A coach can partner with you to create a safe space