Is Relocating Right For You?
The choice to relocate is both important, and difficult. Moving someplace new will be a huge change socially, personally, and professionally.
You’ll be uprooting more than just your belongings. You’ll have to leave good friends and maybe family behind. If you’re well established in your career, then you’ll be starting all over in a new office which can feel a bit like the transition from a senior in high school to a freshman in college!
If you’re moving with your family, then there will be differing priorities and expectations to reconcile, and possibly investigations into education systems and whether a potentially unemployed spouse will be happy in a new role.
Unfortunately, there can be so many competing feelings, opinions, and expectations that a decision becomes impossible. You can easily get paralyzed by advice from your friends and family, the uncertainty of the impact to your career, and the inability to know how things will turn out after you move.
So, let’s look at a few ways to help you make this tough decision:
- Speak with your mentor(s) or hire a coach – someone who is objective, has the ability to help bring you to your own goals and your own voice and vision.
- Talk to anyone you know, or get referred to by a mutual friend, who has moved to the location you’re considering. Ask them what they’ve learned from the transition that might help you both in your decision, and, eventually, if you move, in your own transition to that place.
- Find out if anyone in your own company has made the same move – ask them about their particular experience, and any advice they can offer you about it.
** Try out the Relocation Decision Kit to help you with the right questions to make this tough decision **
