Has anyone else spent years trying to “fix” being multi-talented instead of leveraging it?

I’m one of those people who never fit a single career box. Diplomat, HR, fashion design, tech.. and for months I have been on an extended break (again). I have come to realize every job saw me as “low maintenance” even when I was the one holding fractured teams together, pushing the projects to their ideal heights and bringing energy to lifeless environments.

Now that I am past my mid thirties, I suddenly can’t even try to fit in and play by the rules and go without being recognized for my unique contributions like I have been doing. I think that strategy was a form of self betrayal and my perception of my own value kept getting blurred by the reflex to fix myself.

During this extended limbo, even with very very tight finances I am slowly deciding that I don’t want a regular job anymore. Instead of fixing myself endlessly to prep myself for another disappointment dressed as a new job, this time I have spent months on building a tool to understand the pattern.

SIS (Strategic Identity Synthesis) is a free tool that maps career struggles for multi-talented people. 37 archetypes covering direction, action, and shadow patterns. The data-set includes the outputs from a dedicated research into organizational theories, lives of prominent generalists across different fields and my own stack of aphorisms from my favorite authors. If you want to try it, drop a comment and I will be happy to share the link. Honest feedback welcome.

Has anyone else been through this? I am in this extended limbo stage and was wondering what those of you who have switched into independent consulting have to say about the first steps that they took during the transition and what mindset shifts were especially hard but were absolutely necessary to make it to the other end.

Thank you in advance

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