From age 8 to 11 I played with snails. Me and my friend would build the snails houses (which they escaped from), held races (which they never finished as they crawled off it in three dimensions), and watched them poop with full enthusiasm (mine, that is).
I also collected amoebae and paramecia from the nearby swamp to watch them run/swim/play(?) under my simple microscope.
In short, I was and still am in love and in awe of nature and all its creations. I was already a biologist when I signed up for molecular microbiology at the KF University Graz in 2001.
As a scientific assistant I checked mouse stem cells turn green under the fluorescent microscope to find out if my new CRISPR gene scissor constructs were working. I worked together with CRISPR-Chris – our loving name for the man who developed this groundbreaking new method for which the Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded in 2020.
It was working. A patent and a co-first authorship in a big scientific journal later, I felt fulfilled and empty at the same time. I had accomplished what few people with my job description ever reach and I was approached by scientists to come work for them.
Yet I declined and followed what I now call Pussy Wisdom. I chose coaching instead.
The moment I quit my job I realized how much of my identity was connected to me being a scientist.
I stood there without a job and without an identity. I felt that I didn’t belong to the very people I used to call colleagues any more. I felt that I had lost the core of my being.
Coaching was only a vague idea, a kiss of possibility, nothing concrete. Yet coaching had an indescribable pull that I just had to follow if I cared only a little bit about my purpose, happiness and freedom.
I soon found my deep love for supporting people in their most intimate challenges. I not only discovered my clients’ power, choice and freedom, but also my own.
I could continue doing what I spent years to learn and more years to get really good at and ignore life’s invitation – or rather kick in the butt – for gathering my belongings from the lab bench and bring them to an adventure.
I chose the adventure. With this decision came a lot of learning, starting from the beginning in a completely different field, financial challenges, worried questions if it wouldn’t make more sense to continue what I always loved working in, and so much more.
How can you even begin to explain the transition from intellectual, rational science work towards intuitive, deeply emotional social work? Especially when you’re supposed to be rational and when people inwardly shake their head when you dare to say “It just feels like the right decision to me, I can’t explain it either.”
What has been your biggest direction change in your life?
With love,
Maria
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