comfort zone... to stay or move forward?

Written on February 13, 2009
by Maricel A. Ciudad

i have been doing a lot of thinking lately about whether to continue what i love doing, which is the transcription or move forward and do what i need to do but not love doing, which is teaching.

i can say, im in a comfort zone right now.  i have been in this field for years now and i can say i've improved, i did what i can do to somehow excel in it and i've learned to love it.  now, im in a situation where i need to decide whether to move forward to my "fall back" which is teaching. yes,  i call it a fall back because it wasn't something that i really like to take but just took it thinking that if the other field doesn't work, i still have something to do making it more of an emergency button.

sometimes when i'm in a comfort zone, i tend to stay and enjoy it much so my tendency is not consider other options that may be better than the comfort that i feel.  although, i am open to changes and want to do more things because i know i can do better, it's just that comfort is comfort and sometimes i forget that change is good especially if it's for the better.

but as i was recalling things, transcription wasn't really my first choice then.  i got into it because it's the one job that's available and i've learned to love it easily with the help of establishing friendship with colleagues and the things that i've learned from them so work wasn't work but more of fun.  also, one of its perks is that i can also work at home full time or part time.  now that im already in its comfort, things are getting tough in terms of  workload, which is becoming less and less lately so now i need to decide whether to stay or move forward but i can only hope for the best.

right now, im torn but i'm preparing myself for any change if there is.  maybe teaching isn't as bad as i think (this is figurative).  it's something that i need to do sooner or later but maybe just like transcription, i will just learn to love it and it may be fun too so i'll see.


Sheena's comment:  "Good morning class!!"..... "Good morning Ms. Icel. good morning classmates." Hahahaha can you imagine hearing this everyday gang, 5 days a week? Hahaha.

well, I think your plan B is not that bad, and it pays well also, its of course way way different from the kind of work we have now, but its as fun I bet and more noble! I think teaching highschoolies or grade schoolers rocks! Hehe. If you shall pursue this, it will be a big change for you, but definitely not a bad change. Its a refreshing change for sure. :-)