When you’re sick of your job
Not loving your job/career, employment anymore? Has it become just a job?
We spend so much of our lives working to earn a living, to support a lifestyle, our families, to just make ends meet.
This says to me that you should find joy in what you do, or it is nothing more than a chore and this is sole destroying. It is not good for your well-being to be dragging the chain and just going through the motions.
If you don’t wish to leave your role, how can you breathe life back into it?
Take a holiday/Time out and clear your mind of the daily routine.
While on holidays do some research/homework. Try to understand what it is you want from your role.
Write a list of the things you enjoy about your role and the things you would like to change- or not to do.
Dale Carnegie always said that people leave bosses not jobs, hence you need to decide which it is, “The Boss or the Job. Perhaps if it is the boss you can look for opportunities in another department, state or even country…
5. Take a course to improve your skills. Sometimes the course will stimulate you and inspire you in a way that your job becomes easier to cope with. It may also help you to earn a promotion.
6. Approach your manager/boss and discuss your goals, set a career plan. Ask for what you want (nicely of course), whether it be a change of role within the company, to work different hours, for one day off per week…. only you know what it is you want. – Plan this conversation. No what your goal for the meeting is.
7. Try not to engage in negative conversations about the company, your job, your manager, try to focus on the positives. If you talk about it all the time, it becomes a bigger problem that it really is. If colleagues are drawing you into negative conversations try to change the subject or just disengage and walk away.
8. Reset your goals… decide what it is you really want to focus on
9. Try meeting new people at work, set a goal of meeting and learning something about someone you have not spoken to before.
10. Speak to people in similar roles at other companies, ask them about their roles, about the company, its values, its culture.
11. Try organizing some fun activities during the working day to help stimulate you and others.
12. If you really can’t find the love in your work then it is perhaps time to look around, however do it with a plan, don’t just quit without a role to go to… this is more painful that it is worth.
