Time for a Career Change after Your North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Injury?
The injury/illness that you suffered at work – and that’s led to a desire to file a North Carolina workers’ compensation claim – altered your physical, mental, and spiritual goals in ways that you’re probably only beginning to understand.
As you grapple with the manifold and developing challenges, your thoughts will occasionally turn to questions like:
• What will I do once I’m healthy?
• How much function will I regain?
• What will it be like to go back to my old job if I make a substantial claim against the company? Will it be weird?
• Will my injury, accident, or illness change my career goals? If so, what should I do about this?
It’s important to get thoughts like these out on paper, so you don’t have them clanging around in your head, causing you stress.
Once you’ve written your worries down on paper, try this useful exercise:
1. Spend about 5 or 10 minutes on each question (you can also generate your own questions) and brainstorm answers.
Don’t constrain your thinking. Just spend some time writing free form. Your subconscious will likely pour out its deepest secrets onto the paper for you.
2. Give yourself a break. Come back to these questions tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and do the exercise again.
Once you’ve generated a lot of ideas, you’re going to see patterns in your thinking. For instance, maybe you kept writing things to the effect of, “I really need to find a different job, I don’t want to do this kind of work, and I physically can’t do it anymore.” If so, then really take that message to heart and brainstorm ways around the constraint.
3. Probe and ask questions to solve your problems.
Are there other jobs that you would like to do? Can you apply your training to other jobs? Can you make a vertical or horizontal career move? Compile the questions that stem from these answers, and then brainstorm answers just like you did in the first exercise.
4. For help dealing with your logistical and legal battles, connect with a North Carolina workers’ compensation law firm.
More Web Resources:
Brainstorm Exercise to Help You Find Root Causes
Asking Yourself Why: Again and Again
