ESCAPE FROM THE CUBICLE FARM

It has been almost two years since I walked through the cubicle farm. I remember on my last day as I walked through the farm, observant as usual to the desperate sadness of the farm, but something was different this day.  I suppose it’s because I was coming up on my final day before I finally resigned from this unnatural lifestyle.  I looked into cube after cube of lifeless workers, some of whom I considered friends.  But this day all I could see was waste.  Men and women, with lives wasting away, going along with a system they never questioned, never challenged, never even knew was there enough to reject it.  Puppets to a force they falsely assume is more powerful than them.  I felt sadness, but mostly compassion for all of the potential lost.  And I also felt a shiver of fear, and anger, and betrayal.  I had been one of them, a puppet to this system, and no one looking out for me.  Not my family, and not my friends. Until a few years ago, no one ever told me that this whole thing was bullshit.  That we had (and have) choices.

If escaping the corporate cube farm, living free, earning more, and living life on your own terms appeals to you, then you should definitely keep reading. The organizing and mass production of human efforts humbly began as Henry Ford’s big idea. Henry Ford is the father of mass production and the idea of expendable employees. His legacy created our modern-day cube farms. In public schools, we are prepared to be domestic animals herded into cubes, exploited, and put out to pasture with our best years behind us. We buy into this huge, unthinkable life compromise for the promise of:

Marginal economic security – now

Rapidly eroded retirement dollars – later

Ailing health and ongoing doctor visits, because you lacked a purposeful life that reduces your pasture time!!!

And, when you FINALLY have the freest time, you’ll mainly see your friends at their funerals (seated or lying down).

There are only three endings to this story:

You like cubes and will make yourself indispensable because you love it. (Happy Cow)

You just want a pay cheque – not interested in climbing or growing. (Dispensable Cow)

You hate cubes, want to see more of your freest time now, and produce income that supports your life outside of the cube farm. (Divergent Cow)

If you are #3, diverge with me from the cube farm philosophy, and escape the malodorous stench of office-politic cow pies, big brother policy cattle prods, and straight-jackets constricting our creative and innovative minds. If you’re like me, your cube walls are closing in fast and you are having a Morgan Freeman moment – Shawshank Redemption.

Can you relate?

Butterfly Transition Life Coaching can help you to become educated as to how best to navigate this sea change in your life. Begin by understanding the stages you can expect, and making the most of each one through proactive strategies.

Butterfly Transition Life Coaching is here to support and guide you through the unknown sea of change.

Visit www.butterflylifecoaching.com or call +61 0407 460486 so we can help you.

“The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you have come.”

Are you over being a vocational traveller???

Today the average person changes jobs ten to fifteen times (with an average of 12 job changes), 12 job changes in a person’s working life, WOW! Long gone are those days where you had one job for 30 years and then retired. If you are halfway through your working life and you have a number of job changes, you are a vocational traveller. In our current working environment, it is acceptable to be a vocational traveller, it is almost expected. If a hiring manager sees one or two jobs on your resume there is a chance your resume would be passed over for someone who had more jobs on their resume as they would be perceived to have more experience, which is not necessarily true.

Changing jobs can be quite stressful. You may have had to change jobs due to no fault of your own due to corporate restructure and redundancy, or you have decided to jump ship as your current role is no longer enjoyable, or you have hit the promotional celling, or just had to change jobs for one reason or another.

Here we go again, another entry on the resume, time to update LinkedIn, gotta make the recruitment agencies rounds, Seek and Indeed become your best friends again. The looming question is, where is my next crust of bread coming from?

Not only being a Transitional Life Coach supporting corporate people through their ongoing career and job changes, I too was once a vocational traveller and did find the constant job changing stressful, learning new environments & cultures, new procedures and processes, who is who in the Zoo and of course, who was going to help you and who was going to undermine you.

Can you relate?

Butterfly Transition Life Coaching can help you to become educated as to how best to navigate this sea change in your life. Begin by understanding the stages you can expect, and making the most of each one through proactive strategies.

Butterfly Transition Life Coaching is here to support and guide you through the unknown sea of change.

Visit www.butterflylifecoaching.com or call +61 0407 460486 so we can help you.

“The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you have come.”

Becoming A life Coach

Are You a Corporate Refugee?

Are you a committed, hardworking professional who was in the midst of projects you cared about when your company announced a change of direction that eliminated your job?

Have you been cast out of your "home" company due to downsizing or reorganizing -- through no fault of your own?

Prior to a job shift — or job loss — were you part of a team to which you felt a strong sense of belonging, and whose mission appeared to be fundamental to the health of the organization?

When you took the position from which you were made redundant, did you assume (or were you promised) a lengthy tenure that would provide a reliable career track for professional growth and benefits for your financial well-being — only to have those assurances suddenly pulled out from under you?

Have you "jumped ship" in the wake of corporate mergers or acquisitions that signaled your job would soon be history? 

Is your work history spotted with redundancy that had nothing to do with your job performance and everything to do with current economic realities in your industry or the speed of change in your field?

Has constant change inured you to a wandering professional life, one in which you believe there is no loyalty between employer and employee, and it’s each person for him/herself?

If any or all of these questions describe your situation, you qualify as a Corporate Refugee. Take heart. There is life after redundancy or your corporate change.

The first step is to become educated as to how best to navigate this sea change in your life. Begin by understanding the stages you can expect, and making the most of each one through proactive strategies.

Butterfly Transition Life Coaching is here to support and guide you through the unknown sea of change.

Visit www.butterflylifecoaching.com or call +61 0407 460486 so we can help you.