Love Your Job

Follow your dreams - this is easier said than done. Most people cannot do the work that they want to do. However, they hardly realize the fact that they lose on both ends. Neither are they able to do something that their heart is at nor are they happy in what they are doing. If you are not happy with your current job, it can lead to job dissatisfaction and ultimately to depression and distress. There are different approaches that can be followed to add spice and color to the otherwise monotonous life.

1. Firstly, analyze your job and your personality and attitude. If your personality is not in tune with the job or its requirements, it is better to consider changing your career path. Diversions in career paths used to be taboo once, but are widely accepted now and people like to taste different waters in their career graph. However, changing your career path is not the only solution.

2. Avoid looking at your job as a complicated mess and your company as a mere commercial complex made of people who work only for money. Man is a social animal and hence requires interaction with people. Some interactions often develop into relationships. It is this human factor that you can use to your advantage. Build relationships with similar minded people in your organization. Increasing your network of contacts can help you in many ways. Their suggestions can make your job easy or the associations can make team work more interesting. Some friends might even help you with new contacts to change your career path. Research points out the fact that healthy relationships at work increase the motivation to work by some degrees.

3. Identify the parts of your job that you really like to do. Break your job into smaller tasks and set challenges for yourself or enter into small competition with your co-workers to add spice to your job. Fill your work life with adventure so that you mind is concentrated most of the day and you can add more value to the existing job. This assures enhanced competence and increased recognition in return.

4. Supplement your work life with your favorite pastimes. Fill your day with activities that really ignite your passions and such activities can balance the stress levels and regain your competence at work. Some people try to learn new areas or technologies along with their job to increase their chances of getting promoted. This helps regain lost control as you try to prove yourself in your current job as well as showcase the fact that you are well-geared to assume the next responsibility.

5. Experts suggest taking frequent breaks from work as a viable alternative when you begin to hate your work. Plan your vacations months in advance and prepare everything in place so that there is no room for work during your vacation time. Let your vacation remain free from the clutches of work and spend quality time with your family members. This helps rejuvenate your energies and you might start loving your job as soon as you come back from the vacation.

It is a cycle of de-motivation if you loathe your daily schedule. Your performance tends to deteriorate and you get bad marks in your appraisal. This influences the impression in the mind of the superior. If your superior begins to reprimand you for declining performance you will hate your job more and the cycle continues. You need to break the chain in the initial stage itself and start loving your job. Be prepared for the worst and put in the best of your efforts in your job and you are assured of scaling new heights.