You're absolutely welcome. Thankfully people are becoming more and more aware of paths outside of the traditional laid out ones. Which I think (and hope) will bring this type of conversation more and more into public awareness.
The book editor one is definitely one for me...I hope my career archetype involves creative writing because it's made my soul sing since I was a child, but my parents did their best to crush that dream by telling me I'd never be a published author or make a living from writing. Editing other people's books feels like exactly what you said: a way to have creativity in my life, but without confronting conditioning and fear around my own creative impulses.
Just yesterday I was thinking about starting a subreddit offering actually constructive criticism instead of the bashing I usually see in feedback circles, but really I don't want to spend my life JUST helping others create. I feel a deep urge to do the creating myself...but getting over the fear to follow that urge is a challenge.
(Methinks I should probably be posting this in the Career Archetyle forum lol)
It very may well involve creative writing as your Career Archetype (CA) doesn't get you interested or enjoying things for no reason at all. It's likely just not the form of a typical path. Which is why that doesn't work. Or alternatively it could be a becoming barrier (which you'll learn about in week 4 of the course) and working through that will help to give awareness to what it is exactly.
If you feel that deep urge to create, then it's important to take that seriously and know that it's there within you for a reason. It's not a mistake. We can definitely work on that and what's going on within our CA community. Happy to talk about it in depth with you inside.
You're absolutely welcome. Thankfully people are becoming more and more aware of paths outside of the traditional laid out ones. Which I think (and hope) will bring this type of conversation more and more into public awareness.
The book editor one is definitely one for me...I hope my career archetype involves creative writing because it's made my soul sing since I was a child, but my parents did their best to crush that dream by telling me I'd never be a published author or make a living from writing. Editing other people's books feels like exactly what you said: a way to have creativity in my life, but without confronting conditioning and fear around my own creative impulses.
Just yesterday I was thinking about starting a subreddit offering actually constructive criticism instead of the bashing I usually see in feedback circles, but really I don't want to spend my life JUST helping others create. I feel a deep urge to do the creating myself...but getting over the fear to follow that urge is a challenge.
(Methinks I should probably be posting this in the Career Archetyle forum lol)
It very may well involve creative writing as your Career Archetype (CA) doesn't get you interested or enjoying things for no reason at all. It's likely just not the form of a typical path. Which is why that doesn't work. Or alternatively it could be a becoming barrier (which you'll learn about in week 4 of the course) and working through that will help to give awareness to what it is exactly.
If you feel that deep urge to create, then it's important to take that seriously and know that it's there within you for a reason. It's not a mistake. We can definitely work on that and what's going on within our CA community. Happy to talk about it in depth with you inside.