Feeling Like A Modern Day Slave At Work? Free YOUR Mind

I feel sick every day I go to work and it stops me from doing any other activities that I would like to do. 

Just thinking that after doing that activity; like going to the gym; that I’m still going back to work the next day makes me sick.

I feel like I’m in a corporate prison working as a modern slave to be able to eat, drink and take my 3 weeks’ vacation a year to relax.

I feel extremely stressed. 

While working I don’t seem to have the privilege anymore to deal with the other aspects of my life like family, friends and my health.

~Worker Living in CANADA

Sometimes, some of us feel or have felt like we are a modern-day slave.  We are working at a place, with people, for people that make us sick and miserable.

We feel we have no choice. 

We are going day-by-day like we are prisoners and unable to get out of the work jails we find ourselves locked in.  Basically it’s just a feeling and belief that we are stuck.  We are stuck in a profession we fell into, stuck in an industry we have been in for a while, stuck in an organization we’ve been in a long time… just plain stuck.

If we are feeling like a modern-day slave, in prison or just plain stuck then first we have to admit that is how we feel and DECIDE not just IF we want to change it, but HOW we are going to change it. 

If we have been looking for a job for a year, two, three, even five years and nothing has happened, then we need to do something different.  We need to do some soul-searching and determine WHAT we need to do differently.  Maybe we have to do more than just look for jobs with the same job title as our current one.  Maybe we need to call someone we know and trust and ask for help. Ask someone to look out for us if they know of a job that comes open that fits our skill sets.

We need to stop panicking. The universe knows how we are feeling and what we need.

In order to get out of slavery you have to break free.

Break Free. 

Think Differently. 

What Are You Good At? Are You An Expert In A Field?

There is no personal growth.

I am just doing a job for the money.

I am not using my skills or education.

I will be 40 next year and would like to love my job. I would love to be an expert in my field; a field that gives me passion.

~Worker Living in the BAHAMAS

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

 

Today, ask yourself what you are an expert in.  If the answer comes back – nothing – then ask yourself if  you want to be an expert in anything in this world.

Continue to ask yourself that question throughout the day and see what comes up. Don’t struggle with the answer.  Allow the answer to emerge from somewhere deep inside. 

If you have family and friends that you trust; ask them if they think you are or could be an expert in a particular field or subject.  It is worth investigating, even if you only think about it just for today.

Who Are You? To Thine Own Self Be True

I do not make enough and this job is destroying my health and happiness.

I am turning into a person I do not want to be.

~Worker Living in Oregon

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

Today, sometime today, ask the all-important question: 

“Who are you?”

Not your many roles, not your job title, not where you live, not your gender, not your race, not your name…get beyond all of the labels…ask…”Who am I?” 

By really  taking a deep dive and soul-searching we can be who we are, connect with ourselves and do what we need to do to align our lives and future with where we are supposed to be and what we are supposed to be doing.

The Answers You Get Depend On The Questions You Ask

I do not enjoy the culture or the work. 

I’ve become demotivated and bored.

~Worker Living in the UNITED KINGDOM

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

Today, we need to dig a little deeper and get beyond just naming how we feel and what we don’t like about our jobs. 

We need to ask why and what. 

Once we have named it: my boss, the culture, the work, or boredom –  we have to ask ourselves: “Why don’t I like my boss?” “What don’t I like about the culture?” “What is it about the job itself that I don’t like?” “Why am I bored?”

No one is going to care as much as you are about your career, so start going deeper and ask Why and What questions, so that you will learn from this experience. 

You Are In Control Of Your Life. You Can Change It...Just Like That...

I am depressed at my current job.

I hate it and it is making me insane.

I have so much more to offer. 

I get talked down to and treated like crap by everyone who works there. 

I work with my ex, and my boss is an a**hole. It just kills me inside knowing I have to work there.

~Worker Living in MISSOURI

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

Why do we think we can’t make a change? 

Why do we feel so helpless and hopeless sometimes like we are stuck here in this place, dealing with it all?

We have to know that things will change. 

One day things will change. 

Things always change.  It is just a matter of time. 

While we are here, dealing with all that is this job, and this place, we will endure it for now because we know that it will change.

Things always change.

At The Center Of Your Being You Have The Answer

Lack of passion; Boredom; Repetition; Overwhelming tasks; No enthusiasm for system tasks; No great enthusiasm for co-workers; Expendable; Cog in machine feel; all wrong; not me. 

~Worker Living in MASSACHUSETTS 

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

What words or phrases would describe how you are feeling about your job today? 

Pick up a pen or open a Word file and put down how you are feeling about your current job. Just start writing or typing the words or phrases. Don’t think about it very much, it will come naturally. Just let the words or phrases come through you. 

Take a look at your words or phrases.  What does it all mean?

New Day, Another Chance To Change Your Life

There is the inability to gain (any) work, as such I need better skills and experience to progress.

I really do nothing all day except read the newspaper, and no one sees this as an issue.

~Worker Living in AUSTRALIA

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

Today if you are pretending to work; if you know that when you go into work and do your eight hours on the clock that you’ll only do about two good hours of actual work; then YOU are the one wasting your time.  

This is just a choice — to pretend to work. You are making this choice to waste your talents and gifts that are stored inside of you…but it’s your choice…you can keep pretending to work or you can work on developing yourself and your skills one day at a time.

Do something productive…today