After reading the “Just Quit” your job survey results it has occurred to me that people in most every profession is and/or could be miserable doing what they are doing.
It’s not about the profession.
It’s about the mindset while working in that profession.
This makes me think of Tolstoy’s three questions:
Here people are in lives where they have to work for a living. They are the wage earners. Most people are miserable going to work everyday. It doesn’t seem to matter how much they are paid. Doesn’t seem to matter the title. Still, they are miserable.
So, then what are the answers to Tolstoy’s questions?
It does NOT matter what you are doing. It matters what you THINK about what you are doing NOW.
Get beyond wanting to leave. Get beyond wanting to be in another/different profession. Just be okay with what is right now.
Yep, you are miserable. GET OVER IT. Until you can get over it, it will continue, no matter if you leave where you are, go someplace else…you’ll end up miserable again.
Challenge: be happy in your misery…embrace the suck. If you can do that you can move on…until then…misery will follow you where ever you go.
Don’t believe me….below are the professions of folks who are miserable enough to complete the “Just Quit” your job survey… just this month:
| Accreditation | Yesterday, 6:19PM |
| Writer | Yesterday, 5:15PM |
| Manager | Yesterday, 3:44AM |
| Manufacturing | Friday, Jun 17th 2:31PM |
| Claims adjudicator | Friday, Jun 17th 8:41AM |
| casino job | Thursday, Jun 16th 7:41PM |
| casino job | Thursday, Jun 16th 7:41PM |
| Part time Cashier and Caterer | Thursday, Jun 16th 6:38PM |
| Project Manager Engineer/Microelectronics/technology | Thursday, Jun 16th 11:20AM |
| customer care specialist | Thursday, Jun 16th 12:33AM |
| Accounting | Wednesday, Jun 15th 11:40AM |
| Slot tech | Wednesday, Jun 15th 11:46AM |
| Slot tech | Wednesday, Jun 15th 11:46AM |
| Public servant | Wednesday, Jun 15th 7:22AM |
| Musician | Wednesday, Jun 15th 4:17AM |
| Development assistant | Tuesday, Jun 14th 7:46PM |
| Retail mamanagement | Tuesday, Jun 14th 3:12PM |
| Garbo truck driver | Tuesday, Jun 14th 9:04AM |
| Dentist | Tuesday, Jun 14th 1:59AM |
| mental health | Monday, Jun 13th 6:05PM |
| Accountant | Monday, Jun 13th 5:31PM |
| Telecom Engineer | Monday, Jun 13th 3:26PM |
| Assistant Account Manager/Retail/Design | Monday, Jun 13th 11:39AM |
| Retail | Sunday, Jun 12th 2:38PM |
| IT | Sunday, Jun 12th 1:06PM |
| Accounting | Sunday, Jun 12th 9:27AM |
| receptionist | Sunday, Jun 12th 8:56AM |
| Design engineer | Saturday, Jun 11th 3:19AM |
| Human resource director | Saturday, Jun 11th 1:38AM |
| attorney | Friday, Jun 10th 11:11PM |
| Training & Development | Thursday, Jun 9th 11:35PM |
| Museum/Arts/Education | Thursday, Jun 9th 11:02PM |
| Customer Service | Thursday, Jun 9th 10:34PM |
| Nonprofit | Thursday, Jun 9th 5:29PM |
| Food safety officer | Thursday, Jun 9th 5:45PM |
| Hospitality | Thursday, Jun 9th 4:49PM |
| Sales | Thursday, Jun 9th 11:23AM |
| engineering | Thursday, Jun 9th 9:24AM |
| engineer | Thursday, Jun 9th 6:53AM |
| disability support worker | Thursday, Jun 9th 3:57AM |
| Accountant | Thursday, Jun 9th 12:03AM |
| Insurance | Wednesday, Jun 8th 11:54PM |
| Banking | Wednesday, Jun 8th 11:34PM |
| Finance | Wednesday, Jun 8th 9:40PM |
| Retail | Wednesday, Jun 8th 5:32PM |
| E commerce | Wednesday, Jun 8th 3:53PM |
| Admin PR | Wednesday, Jun 8th 3:17PM |
| Software Consultant | Wednesday, Jun 8th 1:49PM |
| Resturant management | Wednesday, Jun 8th 12:39PM |
| Pharmaceutical Industry | Tuesday, Jun 7th 9:55PM |
| Export | Tuesday, Jun 7th 2:32PM |
| i am on dis ability | Tuesday, Jun 7th 11:09AM |
| Email marketing | Tuesday, Jun 7th 6:41AM |
| recruit | Monday, Jun 6th 5:17PM |
| Superintendent | Monday, Jun 6th 2:16PM |
| administrative assistant | Monday, Jun 6th 1:36PM |
| Manufacturing | Monday, Jun 6th 10:41AM |
| Education | Sunday, Jun 5th 9:58PM |
| Designer | Sunday, Jun 5th 8:35PM |
| Cashier/supervisor | Sunday, Jun 5th 3:32AM |
| CNA | Sunday, Jun 5th 3:29AM |
| Oil | Saturday, Jun 4th 6:02PM |
| journalist | Saturday, Jun 4th 11:11AM |
| Banker; Team Lead Financial Literacy | Saturday, Jun 4th 10:27AM |
| Pharmacy student assistant job | Friday, Jun 3rd 6:30AM |
| Logistics | Friday, Jun 3rd 5:50AM |
| Director of Patient Experience | Thursday, Jun 2nd 5:30PM |
| Purchasing | Thursday, Jun 2nd 3:25PM |
| Accountant | Thursday, Jun 2nd 10:11AM |
| Assistant Director of Guest Experience | Wednesday, Jun 1st 11:11PM |
| Investor Relations | Wednesday, Jun 1st 8:37PM |
| Retail | Wednesday, Jun 1st 8:55PM |
| 7th grade ELA teacher | Wednesday, Jun 1st 6:52PM |
| Personal Assistant | Wednesday, Jun 1st 4:52AM |
Today and everyday when you wake up don’t think about how miserable you are. Even if you want to be doing something difference (and especially if you don’t know what that something different is) think about how you COULD be happy doing what you’re doing, right where you are with the people you are with….why?….because it will help you move on.
You WILL move on. Why? Life is about change. Eventually things will change, don’t delay change by NOT learning the lesson of how to sing while walking in the storm. SING, SMILE. RISE ABOUT IT.
