Right job?

Have you ever wondered if you made the right choice along your career path? Of course you have. I've been thinking a lot about that lately. (And yes, I know a few people I work with have the link to this blog...but I don't think this will surprise them.)

I don't think I made a particularly good choice at moving to be the department WebTrends analyst. I really enjoy working with most of WebTrends, but I'm NOT good at determining things like percent of lost opportunity or other statistical pieces of data the software doesn't calculate for me. My strengths are in knowing out website structure and figuring out how to extract data that WebTrends has or implementing things to get that data...not in taking that data and making more calculations.

So since I loathe that part of my job, it's making me a bit (ok a lot) sick of my job.

I love where I work...and working with most of the people around me. But I don't feel like I can do this much longer. Not only am I burning out, I feel like I'm not the right person for the job. I feel that the team isn't really getting what they need from a person in this role.

That I need a change is clear to me. The problem is....what is that change? Is it going back to writing? Is it moving back toward web design? Is it something completely different. I have strong technical aptitude and love to work with computers, but what do I do with that? What can I do that I enjoy and can still pay my mortgage?

Yes, I know only I can actually figure that answer out. But I thought by throwing this out into the world wide web that some sense of clarity will suddenly strike. So far...that hasn't happened.