Depressed Because of Your Job? You Will Get Through This & Tell Your Story One Day.

I feel unappreciated and humiliated at work.

I don’t care about learning insurance and my skills as a therapist are becoming less and less relevant. I hate being talked down to and yelled at by clients and providers. I hate that my time is micro managed down to the minute and it’s starting to overflow into my personal life.

I am in physical pain every day, and have become so depressed that my appearance has changed. I don’t like what I see in the mirror.

I am depressed on the weekends just thinking about having to go into work on Monday and am completely drained on the weekends.

I’m too tired, discouraged and too depressed to look for another job, and I’m afraid that they will notice that I look depressed and not offer me a job. 

~Worker Living in ILLINOIS

Depression is real.

Sometimes we don’t know we are depressed until we are in a deep depression.  We then look around and ask ourselves HOW did I get here?  We feel like we are in quicksand and sinking fast.  We can’t see a way out.  We wonder if others notice how flat we feel. 

We look in the mirror and don’t recognize ourselves. 

Yes, depression is real.

  If you have been depressed before think about how you came out of it. 

If you can’t remember, hold on to the fact that you DID come out of it. 

If you are further into a depression than you feel you have EVER been, then seek help. 

Why, because depression is real.

P.S.

If things are serious and you need help below are U.S. and Int’l Crisis Hotlines:

Living in the U.S.

Internationally

(Remember…the world needs you to make it through this…so you can tell your story of courage, endurance and transformation from this experience.   You will make…if you are in a deep depression and need help…talk to someone today).

 

We Are All Creative. You Are Creative. Create Something.

I know this job is not my passion.

I feel strongly that although I do not have a business plan lined up, I can develop the ideas and creativity to make it work out for me.

I have a boss who is abusive and there is little room for success and mobility.

I’m stuck.

~Worker Living in NEW YORK

We are all creative.

Each and every one of us is creative.

“Just Quit” is about finding and honoring that spark that wants to ignite inside of us…our creativity.

Today, do something creative.

We can develop the ideas and creativity to make everything work out for us.

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

Be Done With Stressing & Find Your Passion

I am done with stressing.

I am done with coming to work every day, and having to see my boss. 

I hate being ordered around, and that’s what my new boss does.

~Worker Living in INDIA

Done is done.

Be done with stressing.

Be done with feeling defeated.

Be done with feeling hopeless.

Be done with all of that.  Just be done with it. Move on.

Figure out how to relieve the stress. What do you need to do for stress relief?

Do that today.

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

You Don't Have to Live in A Cubicle. You Don't.

I do not like working in a cubicle and I am not passionate about what I do.

I feel stuck and unmotivated at my job.

I am just doing it for a paycheck, and I don’t even need as much money as I am making.

I feel there are more fulfilling and enjoyable job opportunities out there for me. I want to be in the right mindset before looking for jobs, so I am going to quit, take a month off, and then look for another job.

~ Worker Living in CALIFORNIA

If we have gone through the “Just Quit” Steps then we are ready.

There might still be fear; but we can work through the fear with confidence in our decision.

There are some things that we know that we know:

• We know that working in cubicle land doesn’t work for us.
• We know that we feel stuck. 
• We know we are in a dead-end job.
• We know we are underappreciated. 
• We know we need to “Just Quit”. 

If we know that we know…then we know what to do.  

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

Finding the Good In Your Life and Your Job

I will be financially secure with the help of my fiancé.

The job I’m at causes me to feel stuck and unable to take life by the reigns spiritually.

I feel it is a dead end job and I have used up all the resources and mental structure building that it can provide me.

I am able to confidently take away from this job acquired knowledge about how to better speak with people with all different mind sets and situations.

It has helped me gain more patience with people and better listening skills, along with empathy.

I feel that now while working at this job it is keeping me from devoting more time to helping loved ones and friends. The energy that I have to assist others is exhausted from work.

~Worker Living in MINNESOTA

Today, list the things that you will take away from your current job.

What skills or attributes have you personally gained?

There is something good here…what is it?

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

P.S.

One way to look for the good is to use a studied and proven model.  One such model is Appreciative Inquiry. It is typically used in Organizational Change.  For those of us who have spent years and years working in “organizations” we know that change in an organization is not easy…so…just start with yourself.  Below is an interesting book to help you apply AI to your own life.

Stop Gasping for Air & Find YOUR Flow

I’ve discovered that I do not fit well and am not cut out for life in a PR agency.

~Worker Living in MALAYSIA

We don’t have to continue to be a fish out of water. 

We don’t have to continue to use skills that we don’t like and to us are not our strongest skills.

We don’t have to try to fit into a round hole when we are a square peg.

We can find where we fit.  We can find our flow.

If you don’t fit where you are today and you know it…great…you know what you DON’T want to do.  Don’t go looking for another job doing that. No matter how desperate you get don’t try to convince yourself that it’s easier to get another job with the same title or in the same industry you are currently in.  Seems plausible, but it probably won’t make you happy, because it’s not where you fit. 

Find your flow.

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

Practicing Yoga daily is a great way to find your flow.  It helps connect your mind, body and spirit. Maya Fiennes has good Kundalini Yoga material. 

About the Location for today’s story: Malaysia

• It is in Southeast Asia near Singapore
• Official Language: Bahasa Malaysia
• Currency: Ringgits
• It is multi-ethnic and multi-cultural and Islam is the state religion
• There is a west Malaysia and east Malaysia – almost like two separate countries
• They have had one of the best economic records in Asia. The Chinese make-up 1/3 of population but account for 70% of the market capitalism.  Many belong to something called the Bamboo Network.
• Malaysia is the largest producers of tin, rubber and palm oil.