Love your job or leave it!

Just how happy are you at your workplace? No matter how well you do your job, you may not always be appreciated or rewarded for the work you do. You could also face a number of challenges in your workplace such as:

• Little fulfilment
• Long hours and tight deadlines
• Conflicting demands on your time and loyalty
• Little balance between personal life and work commitments
• Strained relationships with the important people in your life
• Lack of any say at work
• Internal politics and a rigid company structure
• Bullying within the workplace
• Few promotional opportunities

So just how do you cope?

At the end of the day, you want to be involved in fulfilling, rewarding and enjoyable, get recognition and promotion for your efforts, and be appreciated for the work you do. But at the same time, want a balanced life with time for the things you really want to do with a full and interesting social life. Of course you want to have clarity about your career, job duties and you want to continue to be healthy, fit and stress free.

It seems a lot to ask for – and the key for resolving these seemingly conflicting challenges is to get clear about just how much you love the work you do?

Is what you do for work make you jump out of bed every morning?

Or would you rather be doing something else?

No matter how good things are in other parts of your life such as family, social life and relationships, work is a major part of your life, and not to be neglected. Since for now you have chosen to be in the job you are in, it is up to you for the time being to make the most of what you do. Of course in the long term, you can either change your job or even embark on a new career. But for now, you can get to love more of what you do right now.