20 hours ago
Stuck in the Same Role for Years? How the Best Career Coach Helps You Break Career Plateaus
Feeling stuck in the same role year after year can be frustrating. You work hard, deliver results, and yet nothing changes - no promotion, no meaningful growth, no excitement. Career plateaus don’t happen overnight. They slowly creep in when routines replace challenges and comfort replaces progress. The tricky part? Many professionals don’t even realize they’re plateaued until motivation starts slipping.
A career plateau isn’t always about lack of skill. Often, it’s about lack of direction. You may be excellent at your job, but unclear about your next move. Should you aim for leadership? Switch roles? Upskill? Or pivot industries entirely? Without clarity, people stay where they are - hoping something will change.
This is where guidance matters. In the middle of this reflection, many professionals begin to understand the real value of the #best #career #coach https://sareencareercoachi... . Not someone who gives generic advice, but someone who helps you identify blind spots, strengths you’ve underused, and opportunities you’ve overlooked. A good coach asks the right questions - ones you may never ask yourself - about your long-term goals, work satisfaction, and growth potential.
Breaking a plateau often involves redefining success. It might mean building new skills, repositioning your professional brand, or learning how to communicate your impact better. Sometimes, it’s about unlearning habits that kept you “safe” but stagnant. With the right perspective, even small shifts can create momentum.
Many professionals exploring this phase come across resources like #Sareen #career #coaching , where the focus is on understanding career patterns rather than chasing quick fixes. The key takeaway remains the same: progress starts when you step back, reassess, and act intentionally.
If this topic resonates, continue the conversation.
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Breaking a career plateau isn’t about drastic change - it’s about making the right change at the right time.
Feeling stuck in the same role year after year can be frustrating. You work hard, deliver results, and yet nothing changes - no promotion, no meaningful growth, no excitement. Career plateaus don’t happen overnight. They slowly creep in when routines replace challenges and comfort replaces progress. The tricky part? Many professionals don’t even realize they’re plateaued until motivation starts slipping.
A career plateau isn’t always about lack of skill. Often, it’s about lack of direction. You may be excellent at your job, but unclear about your next move. Should you aim for leadership? Switch roles? Upskill? Or pivot industries entirely? Without clarity, people stay where they are - hoping something will change.
This is where guidance matters. In the middle of this reflection, many professionals begin to understand the real value of the #best #career #coach https://sareencareercoachi... . Not someone who gives generic advice, but someone who helps you identify blind spots, strengths you’ve underused, and opportunities you’ve overlooked. A good coach asks the right questions - ones you may never ask yourself - about your long-term goals, work satisfaction, and growth potential.
Breaking a plateau often involves redefining success. It might mean building new skills, repositioning your professional brand, or learning how to communicate your impact better. Sometimes, it’s about unlearning habits that kept you “safe” but stagnant. With the right perspective, even small shifts can create momentum.
Many professionals exploring this phase come across resources like #Sareen #career #coaching , where the focus is on understanding career patterns rather than chasing quick fixes. The key takeaway remains the same: progress starts when you step back, reassess, and act intentionally.
If this topic resonates, continue the conversation.
👉 Follow career insights and practical guidance on #Instagram for bite-sized clarity.
👉 Join the discussion on #LinkedIn to connect with professionals navigating similar career challenges.
Breaking a career plateau isn’t about drastic change - it’s about making the right change at the right time.
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3 yr. ago
The Guardian
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it?
Story by Alex Hern • 22-5-2023
It is not just outsiders Meta needs to convince. Even its own shareholders are starting to revolt. The company lost $13.7bn on its “reality labs” unit, which handles research into virtual reality and augmented reality tech, in the last year alone. In a December 2022 blogpost from the unit’s head, Andrew Bosworth, he predicted that a full fifth of the company’s expenditure this year would land with the unit.
But despite the years of investment, there is still only one real area where the underlying technology is actually paying off: video games.
Meta’s Quest 2 headset, a £400 standalone device, is the market leader, capable of handling some of the most popular VR games on the market, including the Meta-owned rhythm game Beat Saber, and VR exercise title Supernatural. Connect it to a powerful gaming PC and it can play even more, including the critically acclaimed Half-Life Alyx, a sequel to 2004’s Half-Life 2. (For non-gamers, imagine if Doctor Who had returned from its 1996 to 2005 hiatus in the form of a Sarah Jane Smith-focused spin-off series that was exclusive to 3D TVs. And then won a best drama Bafta.)
“Meta has done a huge amount of backpedalling about what it thinks is and is not the metaverse,” said Whatley. “I’ve seen Meta presentations that say augmented reality filters on Instagram count as the metaverse. But then I’ve also seen them say that we are all building the metaverse together. It’s quite telling that 100% of the top 38 bestselling experiences for the Quest 2 are all video games. The 39th is a ‘walk the plank’ experience.”
And in that world, Meta is hardly unchallenged. Half-Life Alyx was made for a rival PC platform, the £919 Valve Index, which serves the needs of diehard VR gamers with its “room scale” approach, while Sony’s £529 PlayStation VR2 offers a similar high-fidelity approach for console gamers with a PlayStation 5 in the living room.
And then there is the elephant in the room – and the reason why it may still be too early to fully write off Meta’s metaverse ambitions altogether. On 5 June, Apple is set to lift the lid on the worst kept secret in tech: its own virtual reality headset.
Piecing together leaks from the supply chain, reports from California and the groundwork the company has laid with developers, it is clear that the iPhone maker is planning to take a radically different approach from its rival, with a price tag in the thousands of dollars and a long-term goal to create a device that people do not feel the need to take off when they want to speak to people in the same room as them.
Like so much in the metaverse space, it is a vision that makes sense when you are planning for a decade’s time: with a refined version of these headsets that bundles the same technology in a pair of glasses, it could even be an appealing prospect to speak to the avatar of a work colleague floating in virtual space if the alternative is staring at yet another Zoom window.
But getting from here to there is going to be a hard and thankless slog – and even Zuckerberg cannot burn $10bn a year for ever.
Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, says the metaverse is still in its infancy. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images
© Provided by The Guardian
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it?
Story by Alex Hern • 22-5-2023
It is not just outsiders Meta needs to convince. Even its own shareholders are starting to revolt. The company lost $13.7bn on its “reality labs” unit, which handles research into virtual reality and augmented reality tech, in the last year alone. In a December 2022 blogpost from the unit’s head, Andrew Bosworth, he predicted that a full fifth of the company’s expenditure this year would land with the unit.
But despite the years of investment, there is still only one real area where the underlying technology is actually paying off: video games.
Meta’s Quest 2 headset, a £400 standalone device, is the market leader, capable of handling some of the most popular VR games on the market, including the Meta-owned rhythm game Beat Saber, and VR exercise title Supernatural. Connect it to a powerful gaming PC and it can play even more, including the critically acclaimed Half-Life Alyx, a sequel to 2004’s Half-Life 2. (For non-gamers, imagine if Doctor Who had returned from its 1996 to 2005 hiatus in the form of a Sarah Jane Smith-focused spin-off series that was exclusive to 3D TVs. And then won a best drama Bafta.)
“Meta has done a huge amount of backpedalling about what it thinks is and is not the metaverse,” said Whatley. “I’ve seen Meta presentations that say augmented reality filters on Instagram count as the metaverse. But then I’ve also seen them say that we are all building the metaverse together. It’s quite telling that 100% of the top 38 bestselling experiences for the Quest 2 are all video games. The 39th is a ‘walk the plank’ experience.”
And in that world, Meta is hardly unchallenged. Half-Life Alyx was made for a rival PC platform, the £919 Valve Index, which serves the needs of diehard VR gamers with its “room scale” approach, while Sony’s £529 PlayStation VR2 offers a similar high-fidelity approach for console gamers with a PlayStation 5 in the living room.
And then there is the elephant in the room – and the reason why it may still be too early to fully write off Meta’s metaverse ambitions altogether. On 5 June, Apple is set to lift the lid on the worst kept secret in tech: its own virtual reality headset.
Piecing together leaks from the supply chain, reports from California and the groundwork the company has laid with developers, it is clear that the iPhone maker is planning to take a radically different approach from its rival, with a price tag in the thousands of dollars and a long-term goal to create a device that people do not feel the need to take off when they want to speak to people in the same room as them.
Like so much in the metaverse space, it is a vision that makes sense when you are planning for a decade’s time: with a refined version of these headsets that bundles the same technology in a pair of glasses, it could even be an appealing prospect to speak to the avatar of a work colleague floating in virtual space if the alternative is staring at yet another Zoom window.
But getting from here to there is going to be a hard and thankless slog – and even Zuckerberg cannot burn $10bn a year for ever.
Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, says the metaverse is still in its infancy. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images
© Provided by The Guardian
3 yr. ago
ABC News (AU)
An influx of Russian visitors fleeing Vladimir Putin's war has changed the dynamic in Bali
Story by By Indonesia correspondent Anne Barker • 7h ago - 16-4-2023
When Russian influencer Luiza Kosykh draped herself among the roots of a 700-year-old tree in Bali, she claimed she was trying to be at "one with nature".
In some photos, she is covered in a white sheet, while in others she appears to be totally naked.
However, two years after she posted the pictures on Instagram, they went viral among Bali locals, reigniting a heated debate about the behaviour of foreign tourists on the Indonesian island.
The tree next to the ancient Babakan Temple in Bayan Village is considered to be holy by Balinese people.
However, the 40-year-old influencer — who was arrested on Wednesday — claims she was wearing underwear in the images, and a friend later edited them so that she appeared naked.
Immigration authorities say Ms Kosykh will be deported tonight, becoming the 59th Russian to be banished from the Indonesian island since last year.
A string of offensive incidents has fuelled a growing resentment towards Russian arrivals in Bali.
Only two weeks ago, Russian blogger Yuri Chilikin was deported after he dropped his trousers and flashed his naked buttocks on top of a Balinese volcano.
He later apologised and said he would never have recorded the video if he had known that Mt Agung was considered one of the holiest places in Bali for Hindus.
Badly behaved foreign tourists have always been a problem for Bali.
However, officials say, since reopening to international visitors a little over a year ago, locals have become fed up with an influx of Russians and Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin's war causing trouble in paradise.
From public nudity and drunkenness, to more serious criminal behaviour, locals say the antics of some Russian visitors has reached such epic proportions that they have simply had enough.
Yesterday morning a Ukrainian man was also deported for working illegally as a photographer.
And last night more than 20 immigration officers swooped on a tourist village at Ubud, where many Russians and Ukrainians live or work online, checking to see that their visas and passports were in order. No arrests were made.
Bali's shifting mood
The tropical paradise has long been a favourite destination for Russians, but the sheer number of visitors now arriving in Bali appears to have changed the dynamic with locals.
Since President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine last year, tourists from both Russia and Ukraine have sought refuge in places where they can still enter and obtain visas relatively easily.
In just five months to January this year, almost 80,000 Russians arrived in Bali, along with almost 9,000 Ukrainians.
Russians made up the second-largest group of foreign nationals in Bali last year, second only to Australians.
Before the pandemic started in 2020, Russians were not even in the top five nationalities that visited Bali.
Many Russian men are undoubtedly flocking to the island to escape the military draft to fight in Ukraine.
While Russians were initially welcomed by the famously friendly Balinese, tensions between locals and some visitors have soured.
Russian influencer Luiza Kosykh took the images several years ago, but they recently went viral on Balinese social media. (Instagram: Luiza Kosykh)
© Provided by ABC News (AU)
An influx of Russian visitors fleeing Vladimir Putin's war has changed the dynamic in Bali
Story by By Indonesia correspondent Anne Barker • 7h ago - 16-4-2023
When Russian influencer Luiza Kosykh draped herself among the roots of a 700-year-old tree in Bali, she claimed she was trying to be at "one with nature".
In some photos, she is covered in a white sheet, while in others she appears to be totally naked.
However, two years after she posted the pictures on Instagram, they went viral among Bali locals, reigniting a heated debate about the behaviour of foreign tourists on the Indonesian island.
The tree next to the ancient Babakan Temple in Bayan Village is considered to be holy by Balinese people.
However, the 40-year-old influencer — who was arrested on Wednesday — claims she was wearing underwear in the images, and a friend later edited them so that she appeared naked.
Immigration authorities say Ms Kosykh will be deported tonight, becoming the 59th Russian to be banished from the Indonesian island since last year.
A string of offensive incidents has fuelled a growing resentment towards Russian arrivals in Bali.
Only two weeks ago, Russian blogger Yuri Chilikin was deported after he dropped his trousers and flashed his naked buttocks on top of a Balinese volcano.
He later apologised and said he would never have recorded the video if he had known that Mt Agung was considered one of the holiest places in Bali for Hindus.
Badly behaved foreign tourists have always been a problem for Bali.
However, officials say, since reopening to international visitors a little over a year ago, locals have become fed up with an influx of Russians and Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin's war causing trouble in paradise.
From public nudity and drunkenness, to more serious criminal behaviour, locals say the antics of some Russian visitors has reached such epic proportions that they have simply had enough.
Yesterday morning a Ukrainian man was also deported for working illegally as a photographer.
And last night more than 20 immigration officers swooped on a tourist village at Ubud, where many Russians and Ukrainians live or work online, checking to see that their visas and passports were in order. No arrests were made.
Bali's shifting mood
The tropical paradise has long been a favourite destination for Russians, but the sheer number of visitors now arriving in Bali appears to have changed the dynamic with locals.
Since President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine last year, tourists from both Russia and Ukraine have sought refuge in places where they can still enter and obtain visas relatively easily.
In just five months to January this year, almost 80,000 Russians arrived in Bali, along with almost 9,000 Ukrainians.
Russians made up the second-largest group of foreign nationals in Bali last year, second only to Australians.
Before the pandemic started in 2020, Russians were not even in the top five nationalities that visited Bali.
Many Russian men are undoubtedly flocking to the island to escape the military draft to fight in Ukraine.
While Russians were initially welcomed by the famously friendly Balinese, tensions between locals and some visitors have soured.
Russian influencer Luiza Kosykh took the images several years ago, but they recently went viral on Balinese social media. (Instagram: Luiza Kosykh)
© Provided by ABC News (AU)
3 yr. ago
Showbizz Daily
Stormy Daniels: the adult star who could put Trump behind bars
Story by Zeleb.es • 8h ago - 27-3-2023
Meanwhile, Stormy continues...
...to make as much of the situation as possible. She regularly promotes her own merchandise in a campaign she has tagged #TeamStormy on Instagram. In March 2023, Stormy wrote to her followers: "Had so many orders come in today! Thank you for the support."
Stormy Daniels: the adult star who could put Trump behind bars
Story by Zeleb.es • 8h ago - 27-3-2023
Meanwhile, Stormy continues...
...to make as much of the situation as possible. She regularly promotes her own merchandise in a campaign she has tagged #TeamStormy on Instagram. In March 2023, Stormy wrote to her followers: "Had so many orders come in today! Thank you for the support."
3 yr. ago
Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘year of efficiency’ now means another 10,000 layoffs and a hiring freeze on 5,000 more jobs
BYTRISTAN BOVE
March 15, 2023 at 1:07 AM GMT+11
Meta’s brutal year of efficiency is only just getting started. After laying off around 11,000 employees in November, the company is resorting to even more firings and job cuts. The Facebook parent is terminating around 10,000 jobs and halting hiring for 5,000 open positions, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post Tuesday, in the latest tech sector push to lower costs and streamline operations.
Zuckerberg did not specify what areas of the company would be most affected by job reductions, although Meta’s recruiting team is one of the departments getting downsized, as slower hiring rates are likely to be a permanent reality at the company moving forward.
The first round of Meta layoffs affected around 13% of overall staff, and employees have been bracing for more terminations for weeks ever since Zuckerberg made publicly clear that the company was going to double down on efficiency and become leaner in every department during its last quarterly earnings call with investors last month.
The CEO declared at the time 2023 was going to be the company’s “year of efficiency” as it aimed to become a “stronger and more nimble organization.” He added that while Meta would double down in certain competitive areas including artificial intelligence, unnecessary and underperforming projects were on the cutting board. Of the November layoffs, Zuckerberg said it was the “beginning of our focus on efficiency and not the end.”
A turbid economic climate for tech companies has been especially difficult for social media platforms like Meta, which in addition to Facebook also owns Instagram and Whatsapp. Advertising revenue at the company has been slowing since last year, while investors and Meta shareholders have also grown critical of Zuckerberg’s decision to steer the company into uncharted waters with his metaverse push, first announced in late 2021.
Like many other tech companies, Meta expanded wildly during the early years of the pandemic and hired aggressively, but has since been forced into downscaling as the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to cool down the economy last year. The company had more than 87,000 employees in September, a 28% increase from the year before.
In his blog post announcing the latest layoffs, Zuckerberg mentioned Meta’s “year of efficiency” six times. He referred to the company’s A.I. vision as “our single largest investment” and stated that the company’s long-term goal is to build A.I. “into every one of our products.” Zuckerberg also said A.I. will be employed within the company to improve efficiency, calling it one of Meta’s “tools that will make us most effective over many years.” He said Meta is planning to use A.I. to “help engineers write better code faster, enabling us to automate workloads over time, or identifying obsolete processes that we can phase out.”
But Zuckerberg also suggested Meta may have permanently moved on from its freewheeling past to focus on efficiency and cost-cutting. He warned the company may still struggle to stay profitable in the immediate future as conditions in today’s market environment threaten to persist past this year.
BYTRISTAN BOVE
March 15, 2023 at 1:07 AM GMT+11
Meta’s brutal year of efficiency is only just getting started. After laying off around 11,000 employees in November, the company is resorting to even more firings and job cuts. The Facebook parent is terminating around 10,000 jobs and halting hiring for 5,000 open positions, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post Tuesday, in the latest tech sector push to lower costs and streamline operations.
Zuckerberg did not specify what areas of the company would be most affected by job reductions, although Meta’s recruiting team is one of the departments getting downsized, as slower hiring rates are likely to be a permanent reality at the company moving forward.
The first round of Meta layoffs affected around 13% of overall staff, and employees have been bracing for more terminations for weeks ever since Zuckerberg made publicly clear that the company was going to double down on efficiency and become leaner in every department during its last quarterly earnings call with investors last month.
The CEO declared at the time 2023 was going to be the company’s “year of efficiency” as it aimed to become a “stronger and more nimble organization.” He added that while Meta would double down in certain competitive areas including artificial intelligence, unnecessary and underperforming projects were on the cutting board. Of the November layoffs, Zuckerberg said it was the “beginning of our focus on efficiency and not the end.”
A turbid economic climate for tech companies has been especially difficult for social media platforms like Meta, which in addition to Facebook also owns Instagram and Whatsapp. Advertising revenue at the company has been slowing since last year, while investors and Meta shareholders have also grown critical of Zuckerberg’s decision to steer the company into uncharted waters with his metaverse push, first announced in late 2021.
Like many other tech companies, Meta expanded wildly during the early years of the pandemic and hired aggressively, but has since been forced into downscaling as the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to cool down the economy last year. The company had more than 87,000 employees in September, a 28% increase from the year before.
In his blog post announcing the latest layoffs, Zuckerberg mentioned Meta’s “year of efficiency” six times. He referred to the company’s A.I. vision as “our single largest investment” and stated that the company’s long-term goal is to build A.I. “into every one of our products.” Zuckerberg also said A.I. will be employed within the company to improve efficiency, calling it one of Meta’s “tools that will make us most effective over many years.” He said Meta is planning to use A.I. to “help engineers write better code faster, enabling us to automate workloads over time, or identifying obsolete processes that we can phase out.”
But Zuckerberg also suggested Meta may have permanently moved on from its freewheeling past to focus on efficiency and cost-cutting. He warned the company may still struggle to stay profitable in the immediate future as conditions in today’s market environment threaten to persist past this year.
