Why Do You Keep Taking the Wrong Job?, with Patricia Ortega
Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job
Mac Prichard
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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If you think you’re in the wrong job, there is a way to change that. But first, you need to know why you accepted that position. Find Your Dream Job guest Patricia Ortega says there are external and internal reasons we take jobs that are wrong for us. Perhaps your parents wanted you in a certain career, or you chose this path for the money, but now you find yourself burned out and generally unsatisfied at work. Patricia suggests looking deeply into your values, what you offer, and who would benefit from your skills before applying to your next position.
About Our Guest:Patricia Ortega is a career coach who helps you forge a new path, find a revitalized purpose, and make a positive impact. Patricia also hosts The Uncommon Career Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm your host, Mac Pritchard. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm also the founder of Max List. |
| 0:23.0 | It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career. |
| 0:28.1 | Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want. |
| 0:34.5 | Many people are unhappy at work. One reason this can happen, you say yes to the wrong opportunities, |
| 0:40.3 | and you do this not once, but again and again. Patricia Otega is here to talk about why you keep taking the wrong job. |
| 0:50.3 | She's a career coach who helps you forge a new path, find a revitalized purpose, and make a positive impact. |
| 0:57.6 | Patricia also hosts the excellent Uncommon Career Podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | She joins us from Dallas, Texas. |
| 1:04.1 | Well, let's jump into it, Patricia. |
| 1:05.8 | We're talking about why you keep taking the wrong job. |
| 1:09.7 | What makes a job the wrong job? Yeah, what makes a job? |
| 1:14.5 | Lots of things. Sometimes it has to do with the type of work that you're doing that you think |
| 1:20.1 | you liked that work or you sought it out for what it felt like in theory, but it's much |
| 1:25.5 | different in practice. Lawyer is an epitome, right, of that |
| 1:29.9 | concept. For every hour that is shown on TV in the courtroom, there's 10 hours in a library |
| 1:35.5 | by yourself in a ton of books that are very dense, right? And so that's one of the reasons. |
| 1:40.8 | But this is, there's just such a variety of reasons. It could be that. It could be finding |
| 1:44.7 | yourself in a situation where you went after a career originally for the money, right? Expectations |
| 1:51.2 | that your family had on you or what it means to be successful when you're young. And you get this |
| 1:56.0 | degree and now it feels like a waste to go after a career in a different area. |
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