{"id":46467,"date":"2022-03-22T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46467"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:15:22","slug":"finding-joy-and-fulfillment-in-a-new-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/03\/22\/finding-joy-and-fulfillment-in-a-new-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding joy and fulfillment in a new career."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am a coach now, but I\u2019ve been in advertising for almost 30 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for most of that time, I absolutely loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a creative (writer) in a high-energy environment was amazing and challenging and financially rewarding, and the pressure of having to come up with commercial concepts all the time really worked for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you learn that there\u2019s an endless amount of ideas waiting for you, once you get used to the delicious conceiving of fresh thoughts and you feel really connected to an endless source of new stuff, this job can be truly thrilling and satisfying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all the many positive aspects of being in advertising, though, there were also things that started to get to me, but only after a few decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those things was seeing through the perceived importance of what I did and who I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your colleagues \u2018in the industry\u2019 can respect you deeply, but what does that mean in the grand scheme of things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it really meaningful to make a million-dollar commercial or launch a campaign that everybody talks about, besides the professional value it has?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I realized that, although I loved the process of inventing stuff and seeing the results of that all around me, I was actually doing the same thing over and over again, and it didn\u2019t make any difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After every REALLY important and stressful job or assignment, after every \u2018life and death pitch\u2019, there was another one, and another one, and another one\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telling people that their lives are incomplete with whatever it is I was selling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These doubts never crossed my mind before, but they started to bug me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was I really going to do this forever?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, obviously not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After what felt like a lifetime of doing a specific thing, a thing I deeply appreciated and a thing that gave me a lot of awesome experiences, I shifted to something completely different, and slowly but steadily turned to transformative coaching, which I\u2019ve been doing for about 7 years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new career, just as creative as my former one (probably more), but coming from a place of fulfillment and joy that I have never found in advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This little blog is not, by any means, meant to discredit the industry, and I also don’t claim that you can’t do good stuff while in this profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You totally can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is just an acknowledgment of the things we can start doubting and the radical changes we can make, and how there is life after advertising if that\u2019s what you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you find yourself in that space of insecurity and doubt, if you feel like your heart and soul are not honored by what you do, or if you are in any other way interested in changing your life, contact me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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