Just because you had a good user experience at a nonprofit or a church or an academic institution does not mean that it’s going to be a good place to work. There are people who did well in school and they become professors or teachers or people who had a significant religious experience and they become pastors or other types of ministers, people who received really good medical care and decide to become nurses or doctors or something else.
Sometimes it’s a fit.
Sometimes it is not at all what you expected. Maybe that organization struggles to be a good place to work. Maybe you really feel called to help people in that way, but your actual day-to-day job makes you not actually see the people very much. Or maybe there is so much politics or there are so many administrative duties that it just doesn’t feel good to be there.
If that’s the case for you, I just wanted you to have permission to not like it.
If you’re really struggling with it, that’s what I help people do. I help them relate to the organization differently or decide how to leave or even find an entirely new calling, if that’s what it comes to.
Let me know if I can help.