Work!
We all do it in one form or another, weather we are self employed, a employee, and employer, house wife, you name it. Even when your unemployed you still work at trying to find another job, or work at entertaining yourself while everyone you know is at work, maybe it's just the work required to lift your remote control for you TV, it's still work! We all have to do it, so why is there such unhappiness out there about their jobs? So now you need to bring into the equation the factor of job satisfaction. So what makes you satisfied with your job? Is it variety, accomplishment, paycheck, people, prestige, fame, the look in your child's eye, or finding that much searched for TV program you wanted to see? For me it's variety and learning new things. I get bored very quickly when doing the same thing over and over again, part of the reason I never read a book twice or why I don't own a collection of DVD movies. I have to be really desperate to watch a movie a second time or it had to be really, really, really good! So now that said I'll tell you a thing or two about my job. I used to Love it!!!!!!!! I used to count myself as one of the lucky one's, that I actually found a job that I really enjoyed doing. But now I have switched companies and I am on a project where the repetitiveness has come to new heights. I am seeing the work I did 2 1/2 years ago, repeatedly come back across my desk over and over again. The things built and done but no I am still changing things because either the software isn't set up right so it gets put on hold or that we need field measurements but the client doesn't want us to get them ourselves so we have to go through a third party who has no clue what we need and we try to tell them but they still seem to either miss things we ask for or misinterpret what we ask for. It's as much fun as going to the dentist!!! I have now started to finally make some waves asking for a change and I have sent out resumes for I need out of this rut I have fallen into. I find myself wasting so much time at work for I would rather twiddle my thumbs then look at the work that is on my desk, so then the vicious cycle begins. I now find myself depressed for I don't feel good about myself for I am not giving my employer the fast results I know I could. I just find it really hard to care. When you see no productivity in your job it can be very very depressing. I keep telling myself that I am being paid well, but then because I waste so much time I feel that they are wasting their money paying me. I know this is an exaduration but some days I feel that If I came in one day a week instead of 5 and worked like I used to when I loved my job I would still get more done then I am now at 5 days a week. This has to change, not only because sooner or later my boss might get annoyed but because I don't feel very good about myself because of my lack of enthusiasm so to speak.