Most people now are stuck in dead-end jobs that they detest and that depress them beyond belief,
people are unsatisfied, unchallenged, bored and literally stuck in jobs they really don’t want to be in, but they have to stay in them for money; to survive.
Psychological experiments and research has proven that people who are unhappy in their work are more likely to become either depressed or become aggressive towards co-workers or family at home.
Work causes so much stress in society you wouldn’t believe it. So many people are unhappy in their jobs either due to quantitative overload, quantitative underload, poor interpersonal relationships, high control or very low control over what decisions are made and what is done in their job.
By not gaining satisfaction out of your job, you can become very bored, frustrated, and lose commitment to what you’re doing, then the reverse of that; by having a lot to do in your job, having too much to do can cause just as much stress as not having anything to do, people become anxious, frustrated and feel like they can’t cope with their responsibilities.
How is this making anyone happy?
How do you make yourself happy in a job you really hate?
Children and teenagers grow up aspiring to be doctors, nurses, police officers, solicitors, teachers etc.
But they don’t actually realized what is involved in the job itself, and how stressful it can be.
Top ten stressful professions
- IT
- Medicine / Caring Profession
- Engineering
- Sales and Marketing
- Education
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Operations
- Production
- Clerical
Top ten work stresses
- Workload
- Feeling undervalued
- Deadlines
- Type of work people have to do
- Having to take on other people’s work
- Lack of job satisfaction
- Lack of control over the working day
- Having to work long hours
- Frustration with the working environment
- Targets
When you’re young, you can’t wait to grow up, get a job, earn a lot of money, get your own house, have kids etc.
But then when you actually get there…
you want to be young again, free of responsibility and the stresses of everyday life.
How can work make you feel happy and satisfied if you hate your job and are constantly stressed out?
It happens to everyone, not that many people genuinely love their job, I know all of… 1 person who loves his job? But he so happens to be a really lucky guy and does have a great job that isn’t very stressful.
Working everyday gives a person a purpose.
If they’re not a mother or a father, or aren’t married yet or anything along those lines, working gives a person a purpose. Whether the person hates their job or not, it’s something to do, it’s money in their pockets to survive; to pay bills; have a couple of nights out; buy new clothes when they need them etc.
Why does it have to be like this?
It shouldn’t have to be like this.
We go to high school, college, then university, working our way through education with the ideal that at the end of it all, we’ll get the job we’ve always wanted, will earn good money and will be happy.
But that almost never happens!
There are an unbelievable amount of graduates who come out of university with brilliant degrees under their belt, and end up in an office job or a boring part time job. Nothing like the job they origionally wanted.
How and why does this happen?
Just like many others, I really hope that doesn’t happen to me.
Everyone has a plan when they get half way through their college years- about university and what they want to do in the future, but the plan they have in their heads very rarely becomes reality.
It’s incredibly unfair that people are coming out of university, after working really hard for years and years to be the best that they can be, to end up in a crap job with hardly any money coming in, completley different to everything they’d ever hoped for and dreamed of.
No-one has much money now, with the credit crunch and this recession and depression talk, people can’t afford to do anything, which isn’t helping the situation at all.
A lot of people are in multiple jobs, because the salary from their primary occupation isn’t enough for themselves and their family to survive on.
We all know that it’s been difficult getting yourself up and running when you’ve only just started out and you’re young. It’s always been difficult for everyone, of course it is. But it’s only getting harder, not easier. It’s becoming more complicated, with more taxes, more bills to pay out, mortgages etc.
I can’t wait to go to university.
I can’t wait to get a great job, with great money, my own place and start my life properly.
But at the same time, I’m terrified. I’m terrified of becoming just another one of those students who are let down by society and the government.
To be fair, grants and bursaries from universities do help, but then you’re in debt when you leave, and have to pay every penny back. Which must be hard to do when you’re trying to get your own place and are just starting out in a new job.
When will it become easier?
When will things change?
I hope I get to fulfill my dreams, do everything I want to do and be happy.
However, the sour truth is that, I know that a lot of the things I have planned for myself will never happen.
I’m going to fight, no matter what, to get where I want to be in my life.
I just hope it’ll be worth the fight in the end.
And lets hope one day things change, and life becomes easier.
We know life’s not meant to be easy, and if it was, it’d be boring.
But it being easier than it is now, would make the world a much better place for everyone.
If people were satisfied in their jobs, everyone would be happy and things really would be so much easier.
I guess we all just have to grin and bare it though eh.
And it’s all just to survive…
It’s all just for money…
To feel like we have a purpose…
To support our families…
To Live…
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