For many designers, the decision to become eg. an architect was a selection made from a narrow understanding of the range of career opportunities that exist in the world. In the “bucket” of career possibilities were the more well known occupations like doctor, lawyer, accountant, vet, psychologist and so on. With the pressure from family and probably society as a whole, and being the creative type that you’d always known yourself to be, you jumped head first into a four or five year university course that would lead you to your destination.
Fast forward to today. Is this career what you thought it was going to be? Have you moved from firm to firm, hoping to be working on the kinds of projects you’re truly passionate about and always envisioned you were really cut out for but they never came? Are you now working for yourself but finding something is still niggling at you.. Are you happy?
Today's guest is a fantastic example of how you can turn things around, stay positive and be excited about a new future.
Christina Canters was recently a registered architect. She went through uni, she did her masters and she subsequently studied and did what needed to be done in order to be registered with the board of architecture. As you will hear in this interview though, a few years into her new career, she started to feel, started to realize and accept, that perhaps she didn’t actually enjoy the realities of her chosen profession, of being an architect, she started to realize that despite her love of architecture and design, the actual tasks and day to day activity of being in her profession, of being an architect, wasn’t actually her.
In this interview you will have the chance to listen to how Christina changed direction in her career by identifying and using all the skills she had gained in her profession and focusing them on what really makes her happy. We talk about what it was like to step away from the profession she once loved, about how the idea for her new direction came to her and how she learned all the new skills she now has that have launched her into a whole new career trajectory.
If you stick around to the end of the interview, you’ll hear the one thing Christina has started doing differently this year that ha had a huge impact on where she is today.
