Before I work in the education field, I worked at
multinational company. Many lessons and experience that I learned as long as work there. I
started to work in the multinational company while I was studying at the fourth
level of bachelor degree. In general, many people thought that mathematician
graduates only as a teacher or lecturer and even works at the company will not
far from mathematics field. I didn't do it, I tried to break that perception
and choose to working in the other field that I never knew before. I worked at
HR field. Usually, as a mathematics graduates should work and manage the
numbers, but in this area manages the human. At first, I felt stress and
discomfort with this zone, but I tried to think out of the box that I should
believe and got courage that I can do this job properly. Then, finally I
engaged in this field for more than five years.
There
are many reasons why people do the work according to the field of education
during in college. It is solely to get the right job situation and comfortable
doing the job. But will we be courage to work out of our field? Will we take
the chance in front of us that is not necessarily comfortable. There are some
people will be courage to doing it, work out of the comfort zone, but some are
not.
What
is comfort zone? Alasdair White (2008) said that comfort zone is a mental
activity in which a person keeps himself from anxiety by using behaviors to
create a stable performance and usually there is no courage to take risks. All
people has different comfort zone and they have different ability to get out
from it, some have the courage and some are not.
During I worked at company, I faced more employees who have worked more than 20 years,
but they still was at the same position since the beginning. They said that
they feel worry to get out of their work zone because of family, difficult to
find new job and also worry of getting ridicule others. We should focus that get
out of the comfort zone doesn't mean that get out from the company and find
other new job. But we should be able to do unusual work. Maybe we will get a
lot of ridicule or criticism from others, but it is up to us how to respond it.
Whether we will carry on doing it or not with confidence and determination that
we are capable to doing it. We know that people in general always look at the
negative side without seeing the positive side from us. So, we should be able
to stay focused on target to achieved and ignore the negative thinking.
The
other hand, I faced an employee who previously position as a staff with fairly
high salary, but he felt stuck and decided to resign then get new job in other
company with high position as manager. He boldly decided to get out of his
comfort zone as a staff and take risks as a manager and might not necessarily
to be able to doing work properly. As we know that the higher position at work
has the higher risk (out of salary).
Comfort
zone can be expanded with a new experience, but sometimes the process is not
easy and even painful. We should be able to fall and get up to expand the
zones. Many people are just stuck in a job and fear of being out of comfort
zone. Nearly decades working at the same field and same position. But we should
know that comfort zone is very dangerous. If we still stay at this zone, then
we will not grow and improve our hidden potential and talent. If we decide to
be success, there are no reasons to not get out from our comfort zone, such as
age gender, religion, marital status, position or any matter.
From my experiences, I had been working in a multinational
company with a good salary and comfortable of working conditions, I ventured to
go out looking for a new job in another company with different HR sections.
When I proposed a resign letter, my boss refused it and provide more very
tempting options. But I ignored it and I decide go out of my comfort zone that
is not necessarily able to deal with me. Believe, courage, confidence and
self-evaluation are some of the key to get out from comfort zone, so I have its
and I could change myself. Potential and capability is depend on us who run
this life and other people can be wrong in perceiving us.
We know that every place has different experiences and from
this experiences teach us how to think big and brave to face of life. We should
venture out of our comfort zone and ignore all of the negative whisper that
frustrate us to recognize our potential. If we get new opportunity to try new
things, so take it and don't ignore it. Just be confidence, take high
intention, positive thinking and smart to recognize and use our potential so that
we will be success to pass it.
by MEYF ^_^
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