6 Tactics To Get Unstuck In Your Career

Everybody feels stuck at work from time to time. You feel like you don’t enjoy doing the work. You feel like you’re not growing, or like you’re not challenged anymore. According to a study by Oracle, more than 75% of people feel “stuck” personally and professionally. That’s led directly to a phenomenon called “quiet quitting” — what we used to call disengagement. Too many people have already quit but keep showing up for the paycheck.

And when you think about getting unstuck in your career, you might default to looking for new work. But there’s an alternative. You chose that job for a reason. And often the secret to getting unstuck in your career isn’t to look for new work, but to look at your work with new eyes. To rediscover the reason you chose that job.

In this article, we’ll examine six ways to get unstuck in your career mostly by re-examining something about your current job.

Find New Inputs

The first way to get unstuck in your career is to find new inputs. This means finding new inspiration, ideas, and knowledge to input into your brain. Often, we stop learning far too early in our career. We get the job we want, or the promotion we want, and we scale back on our own personal development. But the world, our industry, and our role keeps changing-and so we need to keep learning to put…