Thursday, September 18, 2008

Do not like your work? Make friends with it!

nelub_030406_b.jpgDay after day everything goes the same way, waking up in the morning you already feel tired, thought of going to work causes terror and panic. You manage oversleeping or being late for work, even if earlier you were famous for your punctuality. Your closest people now arouse irritation in you, when they ask about things at your work, you turn red and white, simple words everything is ok require incredible efforts, and most often you just want to explode. When a boss comes with new recommendations, you can hardly resist a temptation to scratch a table with your nails.


What is happening? Diagnosis is simple. You hate your work. But why you are still here? What keeps you here? There can be many reasons, lets examine only several of them Heres a collection of self-mistakes and their exposure.


Im gaining experience


This is peculiar to young specialists that are just starting working after University, but in fact such hated work will rather cause complete aversion for this kind of activity and further you will have to train for a new profession, as the only thought of working in same area will make you sick. So if you are planning your carrier in one course, you should better consider pro and con.


Someone needs doing this


Strangely enough, this is the most popular argument. Yes, it seems if everybody starts doing only creative work, then there will be no none to wash floors and knock together stools. However, this is not truth, there are many people who really cannot create anything, and many creative people sooner or later understand that now they need to make a break and repair a workbench. If you realize you can do more do more. The world does not care for your sacrifices, no matter how sad it may seem, and everybody can take your place at Xerox, but there are less people wishing to do more difficult work, as it requires education.


Collective is just wonderful


Such also happens. But most often this is a justification for nice, very kind and responsive people whom others use to live at their expense. Colleagues adore them, bring coffee with cakes, congratulate on any occasion, only to load them with all the work. And this is done even unconsciously, theres a simple principle why should I do this, if somebody can do it for me? Look around, maybe it is only you who is working in this office, and rest people are busy with manicure, talking to friends on the phone and choosing new mascara in a catalogue? There are many good people in the world, your collective is not the only one maybe you will find even more of them in some other place?


Everything will come to naught here without me!


This argument is close to previous two ones. Welcome to the real world antique atlantes era is over, do you want to stand with the world on your shoulders during whole life? Surely, after your retiring colleagues will experience difficulties, but why should you bear this cross? Even birds sooner or later set their nestling free allowing them gaining independence. Of course, if this is a business of your whole life it will be difficult quitting it, but if this business causes aversion in you already? You cannot eat only chocolate during whole life only because some time it was a pink of happiness. Work should bring pleasure and satisfaction, not cause headache at one thought about it. After all, if sky collapses and crushes everyone, its not your fault nobody provided themselves with helmets!


Where will I go?


Nobody fires you right now. Everyone can start searching for a new job still working on previous place. Just do not repeat Bridget Johns mistake and edit your resume on your working place you can do this accurately at home and publish in Internet. Do not give a corporative e-mail some obsessed bosses read all post, and do not write your surname. You have a chance to receive a good offer, or your company will create more favorable conditions for you to make you stay.


15 years later Ill be an Assistant Director General


Policy of savings a year later you buy a washing machine, 5 years later a car, 10 years later a cottage, and then you will be happy. Theres a mistake then you will be not happy, but old. What if your company goes bankrupt? Or finds another specialist? Everything may happen, and your table will still stand in a corner.


No one will pay me more


Well, this is already seriously. If you are really assured in it you should better think longer. Of course, money is not the main thing, but their lack makes life much harder. Moreover, if you are a professional but still young specialist, you cannot count on a huge salary since the first month of work. However, this does not mean you should not search for it everyone has a right for fortune.


So, look at all these excuses, examine them carefully. Maybe you see your favorite one among them? If so, you should urgently change the situation! You know, when stress is accumulating in your organism for a long, it causes a long depression, and if your work is a reason, nobody will be able to pay your spent nerves and efforts later. Be careful a hated work can be more terrific than any vampire, sucking your blood, so try to gain immunity to excuses and start actions. It is quite possible that you wont have to change your work you just have to understand what disappoints you try to correct it.

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