Physicians and psychologists agree that dissatisfaction with work negatively affects well-being. For example, scientists have calculated that the number of cardiovascular diseases in men who are dissatisfied with their careers is 80% higher than among those who enjoy their work. There are many explanations for this. The simplest thing is that stress and a feeling of dissatisfaction have a bad effect on the state of all internal organs, cause depression, insomnia, and often lead to alcohol cravings. And a recent study by specialists from Israel showed that work troubles cause an increase in the level of special proteins in the blood, an excessive amount of which increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes mellitus.
Moreover, it turned out that unloved work is more dangerous to health than unemployment. Scientists from Australia conducted a study, during which it was found that those who have a negative attitude to their work are more susceptible to depression than those who have no work at all. Oddly enough, even material stability and high incomes are not able to negate the negative consequences of unloved work for the psyche.
We make a diagnosis
Sometimes the feeling of dissatisfaction is a temporary phenomenon caused by ordinary fatigue. If you feel the urge to quit after several months of rush work, a lot of overtime, and a long absence of vacation, do not rush to hack. Take a break. Take a vacation, take frequent breaks, ask your boss to find you an assistant.
However, there are situations when it is not so easy to solve the problem. Here are a few signs that it's time to leave your boring job.
A constant feeling of anxiety, fatigue that does not go away even after rest, malaise without objective reasons.
A sudden onset of cynicism. As a rule, the emphasis is on the material component. “I do only what is included in my duties, and do not demand from me that I put my soul into work” - such thoughts are typical for an employee who has come to say goodbye to his place.
Loss of meaning in what you are doing. If you begin to think that no one will appreciate your efforts, and the fruits of your labors will not bring any benefit, this is also a reason to think about changing jobs.
Loss of self-esteem, lack of self-confidence, fear of failing even the simplest tasks.
Time for a change
So, you firmly decided that you need to be fired. However, hacking from the shoulder and destroying a long-established life is not easy.
Start by preparing an alternate airfield.Study the job market, try to understand what you can count on in the event of a layoff. And of course, take care of the financial cushion - according to statistics, it takes an average of four to six months to find a really good place.
Talk to loved ones.It is possible that your decision to give up a stable job in favor of an uncertain future will not delight them. And during the period of dismissal, you need their support more than ever. Explain to them what state you are in, try to give arguments in favor of your decision. However, don't let your family pressure you. In the end, this is your life, and only you can make the final decision on whether to leave or stay in the same place.
Take every opportunity to learn something new. First, it will surely help you find your dream job. And secondly, sometimes regular refresher courses or participation in a professional seminar help to look at the unloved work from the other side. Psychologists believe that gaining new knowledge and sharing professional experience is the best way to prevent burnout.
When quitting, you should not express all the accumulated claims to the boss and colleagues. First, everything is over, and there is no need to offend people.
And secondly, no one knows how the future career of former colleagues will turn out. Suddenly one of them will someday remember you and recommend to familiar employers.
In addition, if you work in a rather narrow industry, where most business leaders know each other well, your former boss, offended by your parting words, is quite capable of creating a bad reputation for you.
Personal opinion
Anastasia Melnikova:
If the place of work is completely bored, then, probably, you need to look for a new one. But here everything depends on the specific person. For example, I do not know how to look for a job. I can’t even imagine that I’m starting to offer myself as an employee. Although, if life forces me to, I'm not going anywhere.
The need to provide oneself with material benefits, without which a person simply cannot survive, requires work. Today, either a person is engaged in agriculture, where he grows everything he needs for food and money, or he starts working. Even organizing your own business, at first you will have to sweat very hard for the business to become profitable. However, work is not always a favorite. And here the question arises: get used to it or leave?
A person evaluates the world in terms of what he likes and dislikes. What he likes gives energy, inspiration, the desire to do it. And what a person does not like only takes away his strength and mood. What would happen if a person did not divide the world into "like" and "dislike"? Perhaps a person would then simply do what is needed, having the strength to do it.
The site of psychological help, the site claims that work is not to be loved. You won't be offended by your job if you hate it. The work just needs to be done. This is the approach taken by people who get an unloved job, but at the same time a highly paid one. If work gives you a lot of money, for which you can then buy yourself rest, material entertainment and leisure, then perhaps you do not need to love any work, but simply do it!
Work does not require love from you. You just have to do it. However, the reader of the site is unlikely to like this idea. Therefore, he will consider the issue in a situation where a person hates his job and tries to understand whether to leave or stay.
What is an unloved job?
An unloved work is a type of activity that a person is forced to do, but it does not bring him either moral, material or spiritual satisfaction. Of course, there are jobs that you absolutely do not like, but they allow you to earn a lot of money. But for the most part, people occupy positions that require monotonous work from them, a waste of their time and do not bring high income. Such people sit from call to call and live from paycheck to paycheck.
Studies have been carried out that can easily be confirmed by personal experience. Unloved work negatively affects the health and mental state of the individual. He gets sick faster, often walks irritable, does not get enough sleep and constantly walks sleepy, absent-minded, unhappy. At the same time, people who are unemployed or periodically unemployed are much happier and healthier.
The very fact that a person should not wake up early in the morning to go to a hated job, where he will “stupidly burn through” his time and get pennies for it, makes him happy. And psychologists even agree that it is better for psychological and physical health to sit at home without work, rather than “wither” at an unloved job.
Here are the first conclusions:
- It is better to leave an unloved job in order to look for more comfortable activities in which a person will be engaged, while maintaining his physical and psychological health.
- At the same time, it should be understood that a long time without work deprives a person of money and the desire to get a job. That is, the longer a person is unemployed, the more he wants to stay at home and not look for anything. At the same time, he has less and less money in his pocket.
There is work that is enjoyable and exciting, and there is work that absolutely does not satisfy. There are many reasons for this. Consider the logical and most common ones that can tell you where to get a job in order to be satisfied.
- What are the benefits of working?
There is a law in nature: everything flows according to the least resistance. Water will not flow uphill, it always breaks through the lowlands. An animal will never hunt if it is not hungry. A person will be engaged in the business that requires the least expenditure of strength and energy from him, and at the same time gives a great benefit.
Work becomes unloved when a person spends a lot of strength and energy, while receiving scanty wages. This is not about the fact that you received little money in your hands. You can work one day and earn $ 50 - that will be more satisfying than working for a whole month and a $ 150 pay. A person will always go where he can make little effort, while receiving a lot of benefits for himself personally. And the unloved work becomes the work where he receives less money than the efforts made.
- Does a person manage to work?
A person likes to do what is good, easy and quick. If it's hard to sit in one place and sort through pieces of paper, then this work will be unloved for you. If you like to lead an active lifestyle, then you will like any job that includes numerous movements. If you do not understand something, then any activity related to this case will cause negative emotions.
In other words, the work that requires tension, great effort, and nervous experiences becomes unloved. If you are unable to do something or you are not very good at something, it will be unpleasant. A person is always drawn to what he does easily, where he quickly understands and understands the essence of what is happening.
- Does work give or take away?
A clear sign of an unloved job is a lack of free time, a small salary, a poor team, and deteriorating health. If labor takes more than it gives, then it becomes hard. Why should I waste time and energy on things that are not useful? - a natural question arises in a person's head.
Unloved work does not give strength and inspiration. A person is forced to constantly motivate himself, force, make efforts twice as much as usual. With his favorite work, a person does not notice how time flies. He works with pleasure, practically does not feel fatigue, even if he works all day. But after a working day at an unloved job, a person only feels tired and irritated.
Sometimes a person thinks about leaving an unloved job. However, if he did not do this at the first thought, then he repeatedly comes to this idea, which then does not implement. And the reason for this is:
- The need to earn money at least somewhere, than to live from hand to mouth.
- , which has already been formed during the work on the unloved job.
- and their opportunities to get another job.
- Unwillingness to change anything on your own.
Unloved job - get used to it or leave?
The need to earn money forces people to do even what they are not interested in. Unloved work is familiar to many people who do not have the opportunity to look for their favorite occupation for a long time or open their own business. Sometimes you just need to work and not go anywhere.
However, psychologists say that a person ages faster and fades in all plans if he is engaged in unloved work. If there is a desire and opportunity to leave, then leave without hesitation. If in doubt about leaving, then honestly answer 3 questions:
- Are you ready to work on your unloved job?
- How long will you last?
- Can you endure doing the things that oppress you?
Ideally, a person should find a job that he will enjoy doing. Here you need to find a job that meets three criteria:
- Meaning.
- Wage.
- Interest (passion).
To find a job that meets all three criteria, you need to understand your desires and interests. What do you enjoy doing? What kind of work are you willing to do almost for free? What activities are you willing to do anytime, even on weekends? This is the job you should be doing.
One of the mistakes of most people who have not achieved happiness and harmony is that they try to become happy in something that did not make them happy before. Let's remember the moment when you just graduated from high school. Remember how happy you were, realizing that you spent many years on useless training in a hated place, and now you have a chance to start a life where you will do what you like. Almost all children have a dislike for school while in school. And they all feel joy when they are finally freed from the obligation to study in it, because it has not given them anything, has not made them happy and successful.
All people know this wonderful moment, but for some reason it is forgotten in the future, when they start working, creating families, making friends with others. Many people do not like their work, most are not satisfied with their love and family relationships, there are those who are dissatisfied with their standard of living, the friends with whom he communicates, and the way of life he leads. But what's going on? People are simply dissatisfied with their situation, but do nothing to somehow change it. It’s like you’ve never graduated from school, studied all your life and did what you don’t like.
If the job is not pleasant and does not bring you closer to the goal, leave it. You have the right to change jobs, learn something new, try yourself in a different profession. You have the choice to organize your own business if you feel ready to do so. People become losers because, experiencing discomfort and realizing that their deeds will not achieve the desired goals, they continue to live in this way. There is a kind of resignation with the fact that the goals will remain unattainable, and people will suffer all their lives.
But this is your choice! The person himself chooses how to live, what to accept and because of what to suffer!
If the job is not pleasant and does not bring you closer to the goal, leave it. If you feel bad next to your partner, then part with him. If your current lifestyle doesn't suit you, then change it. You yourself choose what is present in your life and what is not. And it is a mistake to hope that something that did not bring you closer to your goals before, as if in the end it will bring you closer. If before something did not allow you to achieve what you want, then leave it. Try other ways to achieve your goal. Don't bang your head against the wall unless it helps you punch a hole in it. Try to find an already punched hole or take a sledgehammer in your hand. Leave what is not helping you achieve what you want, try other ways to achieve your goal.
Outcome
Work is a part of every person's life. Sooner or later, everyone starts working. Realize the fact that even you will not be able to avoid everyday work. Therefore, here you need to make a choice on what you are ready to spend your energy and time - on your favorite or unloved work. Then take responsibility for your choices and don't complain.
We have been doing things that we don't like for years. We can hardly endure the shift, we come home completely exhausted, and in the morning we again trudge to work without any enthusiasm. We are constantly complaining, but we are not trying to change anything. Everyone has different reasons for not taking action. Some are afraid of losing stability. Others set themselves up for failure ahead of time. Someone hopes for a miracle. Someone has a "pipe dream" that is difficult to approach. And many simply do not know what they want.
But life goes by. The worst thing you can do for yourself is to continue to sit back. It's time to make up your mind for a change! We tell you how to overcome fears, get off the ground and start looking for your favorite job.
1. Look closer
Office employees often dream of a free schedule and creative everyday life, imagine themselves as freelance artists, photographers or writers creating masterpieces in a coffee shop on the seashore. These fantasies seem so unrealizable that only a few dare to translate them into reality.
Most have dreamed of global changes for years, but they remain in their unloved work. Daredevils who still take risks are often completely disappointed in such a choice. Instead of figuring out their true desires and needs, they simply try to escape from their old life, guided by the principle of "the further the better", and usually this does not lead to anything good.
If you have long wanted to quit your job, but are afraid that you will have to look for yourself in some other field, radically change your life and start everything from scratch, do not worry: this is not at all necessary. Your sphere is not limited to either the organization in which you are working now, or the format to which you are accustomed. No matter how much you are tired of everything, you should not immediately give up your specialty and accumulated experience. It is important to understand what exactly "got you", and what else makes sense.
Imagine that you have just now entered your profession. What would interest you? What topics would you find attractive? Who could be a role model? Read about new trends, top companies, and bright names. Take a fresh look at everything. Think about how else you can apply your knowledge and skills: go into a related field, become a lecturer, or, for example, try yourself as a personal consultant.
Most people can find their calling much closer than they think. If you dream of quitting your unloved job, first take a look at the options available to you right now.
If you are still sure that you want to quit with your current profession, but do not yet know where to go, your task is to determine the range of your interests. It's too early to quit, but you may already be taking your first steps towards a better life.
We often find ourselves in the "professional tunnel": we get too hung up on work and begin to associate ourselves with only one role. We diligently fulfill our responsibilities, but at the same time we do not try to develop in other areas and miss new opportunities. When suddenly there is a desire to change something, it turns out that we do not have any special hobbies.
If you find yourself in such a situation, first of all you need to understand what interests you in general. Start trying everything in your free time: read about other professions, go to lectures, conferences and master classes, watch training videos, attend various short-term courses.
Continually discover new areas of expertise. It can take anywhere from a few months to a year, but it's worth it. As a result, you will get out of the impasse and understand where to go next.
As you can see, there is nothing to be afraid of. At this stage, no decisive steps are required from you. You are just collecting information, gradually approaching the goal.
3. Take action!
You can think about your true vocation for years, go over different options in your head, but you still can't do anything. If you already have at least some idea of \u200b\u200bwhat you would like to do, do not waste time thinking too much. You still don’t know if it’s it or not until you try it.
Relax: you don't have to make a decision for life. There is no single purpose that you need to decide on once and for all. The smartest thing to do is just follow your passions. Of course, interest isn't everything. It is important that you consider your work to be meaningful. If your hobby doesn't seem like a worthwhile endeavor to you, it is unlikely to make your dream job.
So, have you already started to take shape? Don't be surprised, but you still don't have to quit. You can go to work and develop in parallel in the area of \u200b\u200binterest to you. Choose professional literature, educational courses, trainings and seminars that will prepare you well and give you a better understanding of the new field.
Don't try to come up with a clear plan for several years ahead. So far, you have little information for this. Go step by step, periodically look around, evaluate the knowledge gained and think about what to do next. Improvise. If at some point you want to change direction again, do not ignore your desire.
Parting words from the author of the book “100 Ways to Change Your Life” Larisa Parfentieva: “Try one thing, then another, third. Be honest: if you don't like it, quit. Mix. Do it. Leave only that which really ignites you, and start to work hard. "
4. Take a Dream Test Drive
If you have an old dream that your thoughts often turn to, but which you have never tried to fulfill, it's time to get off the ground. Otherwise, twenty, thirty, forty years will pass - and you will greatly regret that you did not even try.
First, take a short test drive. This is best done on vacation. Dreaming of a director's career? Find intensive courses and shoot some short films. Do you want to publish a collection of your stories someday? Force yourself to write a certain number of words or pages each day. Are you planning to open a mini-hotel? Check in at the hotel for two weeks, meet the owners and staff, and explore the business from the inside out.
If everything turns out to be approximately as you imagined, you can get down to business seriously (see the previous paragraph). Or arrange another test drive to finally dispel doubts.
Perhaps the dream will not pass the test and you will be disappointed in it. This is also a step forward. The main thing is not to give up. Move on, keep trying new things - and you will definitely find yourself.
5. Get rid of fears
No matter how long you delay this moment, sooner or later you will have to leave your unloved job. Even if you already figured out what you would like to do next, took a test drive of your dreams and learned a lot about a new field, you can be stopped by the fear of change.
We are very afraid of losing stability. Here and now we have an employment contract, social insurance, a constant salary, and the usual responsibilities. And in the future there are only dim prospects and uncertainty.
Career strategist Elena Rezanova responds with a very apt comparison. “At least some stability” in a job you don't like is like an unhappy marriage with an alcoholic. "At least some" family.
Yes, it's scary to take risks. But the familiar, familiar and understandable is not always the best. Try to see uncertainty not as danger, but as exciting opportunities. Deciding on a change is like going on an exciting journey along an unfamiliar route, where many interesting discoveries, incredible adventures and vivid emotions await you.
Another common fear is related to finance. Many are worried about a possible drop in income. But can't you do without another pretty dress or a new phone (at least for a while)? To feel happy, you need to do what you love, spend evenings and weekends with your family, walk, communicate with friends, and gain knowledge. This does not require money.
Still worried? Think about this: if you start to enjoy work and invest energy in what you really like, then your chances of success, including material ones, will increase several times.
There is another intense fear that paralyzes us. We are afraid that nothing will work out. We are experiencing as if we were aiming at something too grandiose. Drop these thoughts. If every person thought so, our world would never have seen great writers, athletes, scientists, businessmen, actors, musicians ... You should try to realize yourself in the business that you love and consider important. Everyone will benefit from this: your colleagues, clients, acquaintances.
Take note of the great advice from Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: “Think about what you want, not what you fear. Keep your spirits up by taking full responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you. Stop whining and complaining. Concentrate your thoughts and energy on what you can do now to improve your life. The rest will follow. "
If you do not try to do what you are interested in, then you risk missing your own life, wasting it on trifles. And that's the only thing that should really scare you.
Of course, not everything will go smoothly. It is easy and ideal only in dreams. But failure is part of a successful and happy life. And if you want to achieve something, you have to come to terms with the fact that there will be days when you are ready to give up. First of all, take them for granted.
Don't be discouraged if something doesn't work out. Do not give up. Failure is good for success. You've probably heard the phrase: "Experience is the best teacher." Do you really think that this is only about positive experiences? Can you imagine how many achievements you have for each failure?
There are no victories without mistakes. Take just about any success story. Now, when you read it, it looks quite logical to itself. But her hero definitely did not see a coherent plot in the process. He doubted, experienced fear, stumbled, had bad days, and saw only one step away from the road. All this did not stop him. He managed to achieve something only because he studied, drew conclusions and tried again.
7. Think about what will happen to you in 10 years
If your work responsibilities do not charge you with energy, but, on the contrary, only drain it, you definitely need to change. Still lacking the motivation to quit your disgusted job and do something else? Then imagine what you will become in 10, 20, 30 years if nothing changes. What tasks will you do? Can you feel happy? For clarity, look at your colleagues who have gone forward on the career ladder. Are they inspiring? Do you want to be like them?
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Unloved job, what to do? Why do so many people sit on their hated work from call to call all their lives? Often, many people face the following dilemma: should they leave their unloved work or get used to it? Scientists at the National University of Australia have found that a hated job can seriously affect a person's well-being and it is much more beneficial for health to be unemployed than to occupy such a vacancy. Experts who conducted the study believe that both the psychological and physical health of an individual is strongly influenced by the type of work, conditions, workload, the presence of prospects, the level of psychological comfort. The research results revealed that psychologically, those people who were without constant employment turned out to be more stable than those who were engaged in an unloved occupation. More prosperous were those people who had their favorite job.
There is a certain category of people who consciously choose an unloved job, but a highly paid one. Such people reason like this: if the unloved work is adequately paid, then you can somehow endure this shortcoming and come to terms with this fact. In life, they compensate for this by spending their free time, including holidays and weekends, as well as vacation time, as they please, realizing their dreams, since the salary allows them to do it.
Unfortunately, life does not always work out in such a way that work is pleasant, satisfying, and at the same time a decent salary is paid. It often happens that while wasting time on a hated business, a person practically does not have time to do what he is really interested in and what he could do if he were not busy with an uninteresting business. Over time, a person stops dreaming, because he realizes that all dreams are impracticable for him. All his thoughts are constantly focused on how to quickly finish the work before the end of the day and escape from the hated job. Therefore, people often have a question in their heads: "how to come to terms with unloved work?"
First, you need to decide what does unloved work mean? In the generally accepted concept, this means that a person does not receive satisfaction from his activities either in the form of social recognition or in the form of money, while the level is rapidly declining. Hateful work is dangerous to your health, both psychologically and physically. Therefore, whatever a person does at such work, everything will cause rejection and internal protest in him. Any action in the performance of functional duties will require redoubled efforts, but first you will need to overcome and motivate yourself to perform these duties.
When a person is busy with what he loves, this time flies by and practically no effort has to be made to perform certain actions, and everything turns out by itself. At the end of the working day, at the end of the working day, a person receives an unloved job, in addition to fatigue, and irritation, which then brings home to the family. At home, he allows himself to relax and, for example, yell at household members. Not restrained by the bounds of decency, accumulated negative energy during the day spills out on the closest people for the most insignificant reason.
Of course, a person periodically thinks about how to leave an unloved job, but he often does not dare to do this, because over time it becomes very difficult for an individual due to the fact that he has acquired a persistent inferiority complex on it.
Unloved work draws in a person, but not as a hobby - with interest, passion, creativity, but as a routine "swamp" due to despair.
And how can you find a new job, having first convinced another employer of your qualifications, if the person himself ceases to value himself and does not consider himself worthy of a better life?
The longer a person works in a hated job, the harder it is to psychologically tune in to change it. This state of affairs is also completely disadvantageous for the employer. What kind of enthusiasm or creativity is there, if sometimes it is difficult to achieve conscientiousness from an employee who is concerned about how to get rid of the next assignment as soon as possible or go home as soon as possible. Hence the disappointing conclusion: no one needs an unloved job - neither the management, nor the immediate environment, nor the employee himself. And the question naturally arises: "what to do in such a situation?"
At present, people are forced to work more and more to satisfy their material needs. Psychologists say that if payday is all that makes a person happy at work, then this is an alarming symptom.
Unloved work gradually "kills" a person. Scientists have already proven that people who are dissatisfied with their work activities die from cardiovascular diseases 2-3 times more often than those people whose work activities do not cause discomfort.
In order to understand a person how to be and what to do next, psychologists recommend answering the following questions honestly:
- am I ready to work at the unloved job;
- as I think, how much I will suffice;
- how long can I endure doing what destroys and oppresses me.
The more honest a person answers these questions, the sooner he admits to himself of a false or imposed choice, the sooner his life will improve, including his personal one. In parallel with the impact of unloved work on the individual, another study at New York University found that job satisfaction improves family relationships. Therefore, before you change your peace of mind for a high salary, you should think about it thoroughly.
Psychologists recommend not chasing a high-paying job, but finding a job to your liking, where you can experience a feeling of involvement in the work process or a hobby that will eventually bring income. Many people have a question how to do this? How can a person find something that will work well, withstand competition, bring income and satisfaction.
To experience a sense of involvement in the work process, an individual should find the intersection of professional activity and the three most important components of his life, which include enthusiasm (passion), meaning, wages (funds).
You should answer yourself the following questions and find the area where the answers intersect:
- what to like to do;
- what a person dreams of in his deepest dreams;
- what is the meaning of professional activity;
- where he wants to work;
- in what area there is a desire to contribute;
- on what means a person wants to exist;
- what standard of living is acceptable.
So, if you always have to make efforts on yourself before doing unloved work, then this is an excuse to quit and change your life. After all, if a job appears in life that will bring satisfaction, then work will cease to be a burden. Life is too short to spend it on the daily waiting for the end of the working day, working for a terrible boss every day, feeling like someone completely insignificant or an item on lease. You must try to become a happy person as much as possible and find your favorite job as soon as possible that will satisfy all your needs.
It is known that more than 80% of people are unhappy with their work and dream of the day when they can send their boss to hell and take the much-desired application to the HR department.
I have been working in HR for eight years, and I observe those sparkling eyes of a person who came to sign his workaround. His blood is full of adrenaline, he no longer perceives reality adequately, he is all in dreams of a new job and how cool it will be there. Another HR promised him more money, a higher position, love and respect from the team, free cookies in the kitchen and a boss darling.
It is also known that most people gain absolutely nothing with a job change. They end up getting the same things that they had in the last place of work.
Imagine that the salary, the team, the location of the office, the benefits package, the boss, the work schedule, the office environment, the opportunities for development and growth, the brand of the company and its products are all ingredients of a dish called “work”. So, most people change the ingredients: they go to a higher salary in an office that is 15 kilometers further from home, and you need to work 1 hour more every day. The ingredients have changed, but the dish has not improved.
For eight years now, among other things, I have been analyzing the reasons for dismissal in order to fight them later. And in general, my struggle is successful: in all places of work I have reduced the turnover rate from 30-50% to 15-20% and I hope that the thoughts presented in this article will be able to reduce turnover at the national level.
So, among the main reasons for fluidity, the following are the most popular:
- Transition to higher wages.
- Transfer to a higher position.
- The load level at the current place of work is too high.
- Changing of the living place.
- Health.
The first four points are the ingredients of our dish, which are usually changed to others, but in the end a person gets the same as a result.
But there are many ways to start enjoying your unloved work without making such drastic changes.
After all, judge for yourself, a job change forces a person:
- Adapt to new responsibilities.
- Adapt to the psychological (after all, there is a great uncertainty ahead, the risk of dismissal).
- Adapt to social change - New colleagues can be very different from their old ones.
- Adapt to physical changes - a new office location, a new table and chair, a new meal in the dining room, light falls differently from the window, a different temperature regime.
All this can even lead to illness. I often see new hires get sick after only a week or two. And then they go to work as sick, because they are afraid to take sick leave in their first days.
In order to find ways to get everything from your unloved work, you first need to figure out what your favorite work consists of.
An ideal job consists of the following components:
- You love to do it.
- You can do it.
- You can get paid for it.
When all three areas intersect, a person has an ideal career.
I propose to take a short test and understand what is happening in your career.
You need to put a number from 1 to 10 in front of each question, where 10 means that you completely agree with the expression, and 1 means completely disagree.
Now add up the scores in each section (professionalism, love, income).
Ideal career looks like that: 100–100–100 .
A typical career for the average person is 60-60-60.
This is where you will understand exactly where your problem is in your career and how you can fix this problem.
In my training, I teach how to look for a job in life, how to transform a career and how to earn more.
And in this article I want to tell you how to find your zest in work. This will help boost your love of work scores a bit.
Remember the movie "Office Romance". For all the heroes, life revolved around the hated work, but everyone found something of their own in it: someone was hunting for fashionable clothes, someone was secretly in love with the deputy director, someone was an active collector of money for birthdays and funerals. And in front of us is an office where all people live a full life, smile, communicate and even be quite happy.
movie "Office Romance" I believe that each of you is able to find something of your own in your unloved work and get everything from it. And here are some of the options that I've come across:
- Working for a girl is an opportunity "Walk" your new outfit... For girls, new outfits are like air. Without them, they go out. But any new outfit needs to be worn somewhere else. There should be admiring glances, compliments or even gossip from envious people and enemies. And the office is the best place where all this can happen.
- Love affair at work... Finding a good husband or wife is very difficult now. And if you don't have a job, then you can only look in bars and discos. Under a glass of Jack Daniels whiskey, you can find far from the best specimen. But the office is a completely different matter. First, the person is immediately visible. Secondly, you can always find out how much he earns. Thirdly, it always adds exotic and extreme to the relationship. Every corporate event turns into a scene from a James Bond movie. I want to be together, but you need to keep secrecy.
- If there is already a second half, then the next item is friend... Having a friend at work is generally one of the greatest successes. Where else can you spend time with a friend all day long without being reprimanded by your wife? Here you can go for smoke breaks, talk about life, and visit the nearest car dealerships or equipment stores during lunch.
- Run away from the house from the child. Of course, a one-year-old child is wonderful. Fine for about 30 to 60 minutes a day. Well, if dad is automatically lucky in this regard, then mom is no longer so. And work is a great way to arrange a small leave from a child... As a result, the child gets a happy mother. A satisfied mother receives leave from her child. And a contented dad gets a contented wife.
- Social benefits. Sometimes the set of benefits is so great that life without them is no longer possible: a company car, insurance for the whole family, free meals, tea, coffee, cookies in the office, preferential vacations, preferential prices for company products, joint trips, corporate events, season tickets to sports clubs. Almost communism.
- Schedule... If you are tired of work, you can get joy out of life by strictly adhering to the work schedule. After all, usually like, you come at 9 o'clock, leave at 19, 20, 21, have lunch at your desk and generally do not see the white light.
And according to the law, you come at 9, every hour you have short breaks, lunch is 60 minutes and go home at 18. If you follow at least half of these norms, you will feel great relief. - If you are tired of work, start changing your environment. Firstly, very often you can ask for better working conditions, better office or table layout. Secondly, you can ask for a more comfortable and beautiful table, an orthopedic chair, a more powerful laptop, a working mobile phone. You can ask to put a coffee maker, a radio tape recorder, a vase with a flower in the office. The environment has changed - and it became more fun to work. Also buy yourself a cool notebook, pen and all your stationery.
- Organize something... You can organize a corporate party, a trip to another city, a go-kart competition or paintball. You can encourage everyone to go to a pub or bowling alley.
- Go on vacation for all the days you haven't used before. By law, all days of unused vacation do not burn out, but accumulate. I have met people who, after working for a company for 5-10 years, have 100 to 200 days of unused leave. Set yourself a goal take twice as much vacation per yearthan given to you by law - 48 days. This is 12 days every quarter. Or try going on vacation for a month.
- Almost every company has a training budget. Find yourself interesting training and ask the company to pay you to participate in it. Better training in another city or another country to travel by train and live in a hotel. A great way to reboot your brain.
- Business trips... Ask to send you on a business trip. Usually they don't like to go there, but you, which you have never been to, and go boldly, is a great tour. In summer, it is great to go on business trips to the south coast.
- Mentoring... Guinea pigs are always fun to have. Talk to your boss and express your desire to mentor new hires. Firstly, it will allow you to legally reduce the workload of your main job. Second, you will be able to legally chat with newbies, take smoke breaks more often and linger longer at lunch under the pretext of "enhanced adaptation." Beginners will love you for it, your credibility will rise, and there is a chance to receive an award.
- Additional vacation for a mother of two children under 15 years old. Few people know that mothers of two children are entitled to an additional 10 days of leave, which does not accumulate. They need to be used for beloved children in addition to the main vacation.
- Make a game out of work.
Agree with your colleagues to bet $ 1 on all FIFA World Cup games. Arrange a tote, involve employees of other departments. You can also count who drank more cups or who drank more glasses of beer in a month at Friday get-togethers in a pub. - This is a real life example - going to work four days a week instead of five... There are just over 50 weeks a year. If you go to work four days a week instead of five all year, you only need 50 days a year. This can be a previously unused vacation or a reduction in salary by 20%.
- Become an in-house coach... More and more companies are starting to create corporate universities in which regular employees act as trainers. This, of course, is a decrease in the workload on the main job, often this is a chance to receive a fee for coaching days without prejudice to salary. And everyone is madly in love with coaches. Well, teaching other people, preparing for trainings, communicating live is a great pleasure. True, if you are not.
- Moving to a different city. The phrase "it is better to be the first guy in the village than the second in the city" works here. Very often, companies open new offices in other cities where they need “their own person”. Such an employee is often rented an apartment, paid for travel to his hometown and back, and added to his salary. well and work in a new city is a very interesting challenge.
- Move to the main office... If you work on the periphery, then look for any way to move to the main office, where the level of salaries and further prospects are always higher.
- Build a horizontal career... Tired of working in your department? Go to the next one. These are new and interesting challenges in an old environment. It will be much easier for you than for a newbie, but you will get a great experience and be a more valuable employee.
- Participate in all competitions held by the company. Companies often conduct quite interesting contests with prizes. Figure out how to beat them and focus on that.
- Donor days... If you really want to take two days, but the vacation does not shine, then you can safely donate blood. On the day of donating blood, the employee is not put on absenteeism, in addition, he is given a coupon for one more paid day outside of work, he is fed and given a small amount of money.
- Register as a speaker at the conference, tell us about your experience... If you are skilled in your business and you have something to tell about,
- Arrange unusual birthday... Surely, at your birthday party, like millions of other people, it is customary to order pizza, eat cakes and drink wine with cognac. Surprise your colleagues - buy 20 different varieties of cheese, 100 grams each, and five bottles of wine from a little-known country with a very complicated grape variety name. Believe me, your birthday will be discussed by everyone. And also, instead of the traditional drinking bout, you can bring a coffee machine with expensive coffee (you can even bring it with Kopi Luwak - this is coffee collected from the poop of animals living on a small lake, as in the movie Until I played in the box) and a box of muffins with seven different tastes. Feed everyone in the morning.
- Bring yours to work culinary masterpieces... If you love cooking, start bringing your own pies, croissants and tarts to work. A whole day of grateful reviews is provided for you. If you love flowers, start looking after everyone. Let everyone see the results of your labors.
- It's the same with other hobbies. Do you like drawing up horoscopes? Do you do Amway or Avon? Do you place orders on foreign websites for your husband and child? Do you knit socks? Bring everything to the masses... Share with your colleagues, and you will get a lot of positive emotions, gratitude and new ideas.
- Allocate yourself 30 minutes a day to read something interesting on the Internet. Just don't waste this time on social media.
- Delegate whatever you don't like. If you don't have subordinates, ask your boss so that you only have those that are really interesting to you. Can not? Ask for free interns. They will happily do any work for the experience, and you will get extra hands.
- Figure out what your boss likes about the job and focus on that. If a beautiful presentation about the work of the department is most important to your boss, spend all the time preparing it. If a positive image of your department within the company is important to him, spend a lot of time with colleagues from other departments and build this image, albeit to the detriment of other tasks.
Of course, many will say that if you do not like your job, then you need to leave it, but this is a topic for a completely different article.
What advice can you give to people who do not like their job, but for various reasons they cannot leave it?