When I hear that you love your job, it’s really like you have won the lottery! (well maybe not quite the same)
Being around people who love what they do is infectious and joyful. You spend so much of your time there that you kind’ve hope you would at least enjoy it.
But sadly that is simply not the case for you.
How come?
Perhaps because organisations and businesses are full of all sorts and they add to the culture of the place.
What you may not realise is that your co-workers (and that includes managers) bring with them their own stuff and yes some of them may have narcissist tendencies and some may even be bullies. And guess what, it’s all laid out on the shop floor.
If it’s not that?
Maybe you feel that the job you have strived for months or years of study for, is not cracked up to what you think it is.
What tends to happen then is that you feel stuck, trapped or if your in a ‘golden handcuff’ situation, worse.
So what are your symptoms?
- Any opportunity to take days off, you take it.
- You find yourself talking more about how awful work is and it starts to consume the best part of your conversations with friends or partner.
- You may even experience anxiety at the thought of going into the office.
- Your mood changes you become snappy, withdrawn from colleagues or workplace gatherings and this carries over at home.
I could go on – but I think you get the point.
So here’s what you can do to turn this around.
- Like the early stages of a romance you were enthusiastic once. You were drawn to something at work, think back to what it was. What made you apply to join the business in the first place?
- Reflect on what has changed, is it you? new management? a restructure?
- What adjustments that you need to make that hasn’t crossed your mind?
- What are the little ‘golden nuggets’ lurking under the laptop? is it a regular good laugh with a colleague who has perhaps left? the gym membership that you found as a great perk, or the opportunities to go on training courses?
If all else fails you actually have the mindset to shift that you just haven’t tapped into it yet. But you got this job didn’t you? and you set the mindset to achieve it?
You deserve to love what you do. Time to dig deeper and work on it.
