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GapYear is a time for growth and happiness.
Back to ListBack to ListChanging jobs is a new challenge
How do you perceive changing jobs? Everyone has their own thoughts, but I think most would agree that it's a 'new challenge.'Leaving a secure job for another is both a new challenge and a risky one. Shall we first re-check your desire to take on such a change?
Are you, reading this now, perhaps thinking 'I'll just quit and see what happens'?
To get straight to the point, the reason for changing jobs is'something like "I'll just quit and see"'Even if it's impulsive, that's okay—it's your decision. However, when you leave,You need to be mentally able to withstand the gap period.
Unless you immediately succeed in finding a new job after leaving, there will inevitably be a certain gap period.If you're not mentally prepared, during this gap period you might start thinking this again.
Maybe I should've held on a little longer..?
You need a plan to strengthen your resolve.
In fact, more difficult than suffering from various negative effects at a company may be the anxiety of not belonging anywhere. Being part of somewhere gives a surprisingly large sense of security. It's also proof to society that 'I'm doing well.'
That's why many people, even after making a bold resignation to move to a better place, struggle through this gap period.
What matters to prevent this anxiety is 'a plan.'You need a step to organize where you're going to move and why you're changing jobs.If you just quit the company, the emptiness will only grow.
But can you take care of this organizing period while resting in your daily life? If you try to do this organizing and plan your future at home, it might actually be mentally harder.
You'll probably spend days researching various things online, and if you don't even know where you want to move, that searching could ultimately break you mentally.
To change jobs when it's not even clear where you want to go...Will joining just any new place suddenly bring about an ideal life different from your previous job? No. If you enter a company without having properly sorted out your mind, it is highly likely to turn out the same as before.
In the process of trying to change jobs like that, feelings of frustration, depression, and lethargy pour in again. The bold, determined version of you who tried to change jobs disappears.
Therefore, we need a gap year.
Gap year
A gap year is a period in which you temporarily pause or combine your studies or work and engage in various activities such as travel, internships, and volunteering to...a period to find your dreams and aptitudesor, before moving on to the next step,a period to heal and organize the path forwardThis is what it means.
The gap year has become an established culture overseas. In the United States, universities like Harvard and MIT enclose a gap year proposal along with the acceptance letter. Students may defer admission for one year, spend that year engaging in various activities to find their dreams and aptitudes, and then enroll. After introducing the gap year system, Harvard reportedly saw fewer dropouts and a higher graduation rate.
In fact, gap years are even more necessary for working professionals.
Are the job you are doing now or the university you attended truly what you wanted? If so, you are truly very lucky.
According to a JobKorea survey, when HR managers were asked whether there were any new hires who had resigned in the last half of the year (second half of 2016), 79% responded that there were resignations.
((JobKorea survey, "79% of SMEs: There were resignations among new hires in the last half-year." Acrofan 2017.04.13)
In other words, this seems to be a statistic showing that many new employees leave because they can't adapt to their first job. There are various reasons such as salary or extra duties, but one of them is that the job does not match their aptitude.
Can a company you took a job at without even having time to consider what you like or what you're good at be a good fit? I think the probability is very low.For those who have put aside what they enjoy and have been forcing themselves to fit into what society demands, now is the perfect time for a 'gap year.'
A gap year is not about just playing around.
In short, a gap year is not simply time off. It can be a period to clearly define the direction for moving forward.We have roughly a 100-year life. Can't we give ourselves a short break after all the hard work we've put in?
During this period it is not about just resting and playing; it is a time to organize your life, reflect on what kind of life you have been pursuing, and decide which direction to take from now on.What you need to sort out these thoughts is a 'new stimulus' that will guide them.
When living in an unfamiliar environment, we experience our various preconceived ideas being broken. For example, if you volunteer in a Southeast Asian country, you often see children who are very poor but frequently have happy smiles.
Facing such situations becomes an opportunity to reassess what you have considered the value of happiness. By seeing things you don't normally see, they come to you as a new stimulus.
Imagine breaking down and redefining the thoughts and stereotypes you previously held one by one, and drawing the direction of your life going forward.Wouldn't that produce a direction in which you can live with satisfaction?
I hope you live a life for yourself.
The purpose of this piece is less 'You must take a gap year' and more...'Take a look back at your life.'That is probably closer to the intention.Perhaps 80% of you reading this have not lived based on autonomous, self-directed decisions. You have likely competed and worked hard for the ideal life society talks about.And now, as you start a new chapter like changing jobs, are you just going to enter any place through the same process as before? Isn't it time to try living a life for yourself?
I hope you live a life for yourself. Take a look back at your life: how you have lived and whether you will continue to live this way going forward.