I hate my job
How many times have we heard those words from someone? I hate my job. How many times have we in fact said that ourselves either to a friends, a member of family or even a co-worker. Some of the braver of us find the courage to say it to our boss’s, and a few of those people sometimes even manage to hold onto their jobs afterwards!
It is a well heard phrase, and it is a complaint that is widespread. We spend more time doing our jobs than anything else. It doesn’t matter what that job is, whether you’re a highly paid face lift surgeon at a posh clinic, or you sit in a call centre on the end of telephone selling pet insurance to people. The level of pay generally doesn’t change the fact that we spend most of our time doing our job. So, understanding this, the question you have to ask yourself: is it worth it? If you enjoy your job, you’re laughing! You spend most of your lifetime doing something that you enjoy. You are on to a winner there, and you should make sure that you don’t let go of that. As to the rest of us, is it really worth it? If you aren’t enjoying yourself, and be realistic and understand that this is going to go on for years and years to come, perhaps you should get out whilst you still can, or at least make a change. Sometimes the smallest of changes can make a big difference. If you are the girl in the call centre selling pet insurance, move over to equine liability and perhaps it’ll make a bigger difference that you think. The team of people will change, the office you work in, the route you take to work… all these things will have an effect on your life state. If you are the surgeon sick of face lifts, switch to doing mole removal. Again, change of clinic, change of staff, perhaps the new nurse who assists you turns out to be the love of your life, you get married, have kids, move to Boivia… who knows! If you feel like you are in a job that you are not in tune with though, make a change. It doesn’t matter how large or small that change seems, make it and I tell you, you won’t regret it.
