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Article: Career Crisis Syndrome A Pox on U.S. Workers
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 21, 1995
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Career Crisis Syndrome is the term we have given to a career
pattern we are seeing more frequently.
This type of pattern used to be applied to people in their 40s
and 50s in "mid-life crisis." But especially within the last year,
we're finding it in people in their mid-20s through mid-30s. At
work, they feel unhappy, unmotivated and trapped in "the wrong
career."
Specifically, Career Crisis Syndrome has the following
characteristics:
A deep sense of emptiness or lack of fulfillment in one's current
career or job, often with the feeling that it is extraordinarily
stressful, overly detailed and emotionally unrewarding.
A feeling of being trapped in the wrong career or job, with no sense ...