6: When You're Bitter About Your Career

“This isn’t what I signed up for.”

Have you ever had that thought about your career?

When our careers don’t go the way we dreamed or planned, it’s easy to slip into bitterness, resentment, and anger.

But those feelings can also be a clue, a starting point rather than an ending point. As we get honest with ourselves and with God about our unmet expectations and desires, it can lead to real spiritual growth.

Take the course at FindingGodAtWork.org.

Sources: Romans 12:3 (NIV)

Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV)

Elisabet Beseran, Juan M Pericàs, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Meritxell Ventura-Cots, Keshia M Pollack Porter, and Joan Benach, “Deaths of Despair: A Scoping Review on the Social Determinants of Drug Overdose, Alcohol-Related Liver Disease and Suicide,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, September 29, 2022.

Karen Miller, Strengthen Your Leadership.

Jen Pollack Michel, Teach Us to Want: Ambition, Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2014).

Arlie Russell Hochschild, “The Outsourced LIfe,” Opinion, The New York Times, May 5, 2012. 

Charles Coppens, S.J., The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: Adapted to an Eight Days Retreat (St. Louis: Herder, 1916).

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