Feel Broken? Feel Stressed? Feel That; Then Put Yourself Together & Fly Away

My health has been declining from the stress. I cry almost every day. The stress has become unbearable.

I want to have time again to relax and to rediscover myself without stress surrounding everything I do. The stress at my job currently follows me everywhere so it’s hard to just have fun outside of work even.

I also want to make a career change and want to narrow down what I’d like to do (I am pretty sure I want to become a programmer or web developer.)

I feel broken and want to feel whole again.

~Worker Living in Colorado

Emotional stress can make us feel broken. 

It can make us not find pleasure in anything. 

We can put ourselves back together. We WILL put ourselves back together one piece at a time. We will not let this job break us down, not today.

Have Compassion. Be Kind. Help Someone Today.

I have been in this field of work for 20 years and with this company for only seven weeks and have not been trained. I have spoken to my immediate bosses who ignore my repeated requests for training. I have spoken to their boss and HR.  I have been ignored by everyone.

I am unhappy and things just keep getting worse. I try to go in with a better attitude every day and keep trying to just work harder.

People are unkind, unprofessional, and sometimes just plain rude to me. I don’t fit in and still unsure of what my role is. I feel so lost and I keep getting negative feedback from my peers and boss.

I went in on Friday morning and just told my boss I need some direction and training and she refused to help me. She said I think you are doing just fine then sent me an e-mail with a list of my current mistakes. By company guidelines I should have 6 weeks of training I had only 6 days.

I work in a high stress clinic and I am counted on to care for patients. I am so afraid I will make an awful mistake. I don’t know the equipment or protocols for this particular clinic. I told my boss that the patients and I both deserve better.

The staff around me complains that I am not helping them enough and that I don’t know their system. My boss still does not understand my concern. The patients are frustrated that I know what I need to do, but not how to do it when I am helping them. 

~Colorado

Do you remember how it feels to be new, in a new job, new department, new assignment, new responsibility, or learning a new computer system? Look around you.  There is someone struggling to learn that “something new”. Someone on the job is struggling and feels like they are in the dark. If you can help them and ease that learning curve burden, then help them.

Think cooperation and not competition.

We are all in this human experience together.

Help someone else today. Show compassion.   

When You "Just Quit" Do So Responsibly...Because Life Is An Echo

I’m planning to move to another state and landing a job is taking longer than expected.

I really dislike the nature of my current job. Most of my co-workers are great and have become good friends, but the nature of the work makes me hate my life.

In addition, busy season is coming up (I’m a public accountant) and I want to get out before it hits. This is because I obviously hate busy season even more, but I also want to give my bosses time to reschedule people in my absence.

~Worker Living in COLORADO

Although we know we are miserable, and are actively planning our exits, we can still be responsible.

We might hate what we are doing on this job; but we can still be respectful to our employers, co-workers and clients.

We can give proper notice and leave at a down-time.

We can be responsible when we “Just Quit”.

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live

Today, Choose Hope. Allow Your Best Future To Emerge.

It is an unhealthy, abusive environment for me.

I find myself in tears one way or another related to the job. 

I take as many vacation days as I can just to avoid having people yelling at me all day.

I have already had one breakdown because of this and I consider doing physical harm to myself every day just to find ways to get out of a day of work.

I dread coming in every day to the point where I am generally late…which only adds more stress.

This job gives me migraines and other severe health issues due to stress that has started manifesting more and more frequently.

In addition to that I have extreme and lasting emotional duress due to this job… it is a very negative job and I’ve been doing it so long that when I have time off there is a noticeable difference in mood and attitude towards life in general…which I have noticed is seriously hindering my ability to not only look for new work but to look like a positive loving candidate that will be able to contribute to another company. 

~Worker Living in COLORADO

Some days all we have is HOPE. 

Today, know that there is HOPE. 

Hold on to HOPE. 

Find something…anything you can find and write the word HOPE on it.  Keep that something in your pocket or near you all day today. 

Hold on to HOPE.

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live

Feeling Demoted Is A Wake-up Call

Because of organizational changes it has resulted in my being pushed into a lesser role than I had previously.

~Worker Living in COLORADO

Some of us have been here:  we still have our jobs, same title even, but our role has changed.

Our role is diminished.

We feel like we have been demoted.

We can’t see a way forward, only a way out.

Sometimes things happen to cause use to wake up and to act…to do something…to make a change.

It’s a wake-up call.

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live

Learn to Trust Yourself and Stop Agreeing To Things That Insult Your Soul

I don’t feel valued.

I don’t trust my own team.

I don’t feel like I can maximize my value to the firm.

The stress is making me physically and mentally ill.

I’m not doing the work I love.

The company’s values are inconsistent with my own.

~Worker Living in COLORADO

 

Today, I will trust myself.

I will trust what I value.

I will trust that I will be able to do the work that I love.

I will pay close attention to my internal voice and cancel out any negative messages.

I have to work on getting out of any mental negative loop that I might be in.

I can trust myself.

I WILL trust MYSELF today.

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live