Oh Snap! My Career Is in Crisis ― Craft a Strategy to Get Your Career Back on Track

Are you in a career crisis—thinking about changing jobs? Are "should I stay or should I go" the lyrics for your current earworm? Or does it feel like the choice was or shortly will be made for you? Maybe the life of a barista sounds incredibly appealing. Or maybe you got the big promotion, but it just wasn't as magical as you thought it was going to be. There are a lot of types of career crises…are you in one? If you think you are, then you are – it's that simple.

Your first instinct might be to jump into action to fix it. STOP! You need a strategy! Don't update your LinkedIn profile, or email your resume' to headhunters, or start calling your network. Wait on all that before you create a big mess of frantic activity. The first thing you need to do is read Oh Snap! My Career is in Crisis.

Your career is important. It's approximately half of your waking life. Your identity is tightly wrapped up in what you do. The next move should not be in reaction to how you got into your current career crisis. The next move should be a strategic move, designed to get you where you want to be in the short, medium, and long term.

Oh Snap! My Career is in Crisis is a bit like a dry martini: 4 parts pure, distilled Maggie Huffman, 1 part Art of Work by Jeff Goins, with a splash of What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard N. Bolles. Most importantly, it's shaken, not stirred.

Let Maggie Huffman guide you through your career crisis in the third book of her Unlock Your Potential Series.

Maggie Huffman is a life coach, speaker and the author of the bestselling books, Whoops! I Forgot to Achieve My Potential and WTF?!? I Still Believe this Sh*t? Maggie spent more than 20 years in the corporate world. Granted, it was in wine, but it wasn’t all sipping and spitting! She led many large projects and cross-functional teams – many of them global. She had a unique career path, fixing a lot of broken systems, structures, and processes, which gave her access to a wealth of tools and metaphors.

In her coaching practice today, she will use anything at all that helps her clients to take inspired action and fulfill their true and full potential. These things can come from the world of science (neuroscience, quantum physics, nutrition), from the land of corporate (project and change management, executive coaching, process improvement), the world of woo (visualizations, thought work, metaphysics), pop culture or just random fun things (humor, jargon, sticky notes and Tombo markers.)

Maggie lives in a quirky, almost imaginary world that looks suspiciously like Stars Hollow (of Gilmore Girls fame), with a workspace straight from the set of The Good Witch, except that it is in Sonoma, California, where there really isn’t any snow. She thinks in a weird combination of metaphors, song lyrics and Excel.