Top Tips For Making Career-Based Lemonade When Your Old Workplace Hands You Lemons

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We’ve all heard the saying, ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade’, right? Well, the same rules apply in business. Sure, you may have recently escaped a terrible position that sucked your inspiration dry. BUT, it’s well within your power to turn those experiences into something useful (such as lemonade) when it comes to embarking on your next business pursuit. Simply keep reading to find out how.

Find Your Passion
Nothing drains your passion for work faster than an uninspiring, thankless job in cold environments like retail. Going through the motions of this career might even lead you to forget what passion is! You certainly won’t be able to imagine yourself finding it at work. But this lacklustre feeling could end up being exactly the thing from which to reignite your passion. 
After all, an uninspiring position teaches you what you don’t want to do with your life. And, once you know that, you’re in a far better place to work out what you actually care about. Perhaps you’re a sociable person, but a customer-facing retail role is getting you down? Would client work be better? Or, would your skills suit a management role? As you peel back the layers of what you don’t like about your current job, you’re constantly unveiling the soft and juicy fruit of your passion. 

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Create a Better Workspace
Whether you’re set to work from home, or you’re planning to launch a growing business that needs an office space, your past experiences can also help here. After all, if you’ve worked in a stifling, bland office space with no bells and whistles, then you’ll already know how much this can drag your work down. And you can use that knowledge to create a better workspace that makes it easier for you (and everyone else) to get work done. 
Let’s say you’re planning to start your own business as a content creator from home. You could focus on personalised office styling, plenty of natural light, and office colours that are a bit more inspiring than the blank white you’ve always known. Alternatively, if your office will be hosting employees, your past could drive you towards the need for as many home comforts as possible. Whether you use that knowledge to rent a water cooler, set up a break room, or even stock up on office gym equipment, your future enterprise will inevitably be stronger for it. 

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Focus on the Future
​Often, we get stuck in bad roles because there’s no chance of progression. This lack of prospects can prove crushing, but it highlights the need to focus on the future in whatever you do next. Whether you’re building a new enterprise, working towards a specific career goal, or trying to advance your skills through additional qualifications, etc., you can save yourself from getting stuck by simply making sure to look forward at all times! 
Just like that, you can turn a sour work situation into sweet nectar that might well turn your life around!