You Are Not Your Job Title: How Career Identity Traps Mid-Career Professionals

Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search · Jan 29, 2026 · 9m

Maybe you have a "great job" where you've been extremely successful. But does any of that matter if you dread going to work? Nope, you're not ungrateful if you feel this way. When your career no longer aligns with your life, it's often because your identity has become too tightly wound around your job title, creating what feels like an inescapable trap. Learn how Karen stepped away from her all-encompassing job as a Dean and redesigned her career and life to find true fulfillment (and how you can do the same!)

What you'll learn

How successful people often struggle most with career change…