“Muddling along” in the job?

As long as I have known this particular friend she has been unhappy with the organisation she works for. It’s a permanent, pensionable well paid job which has made her very financially secure. She’s a high performer and in her current role she sees significant mismanagement which she finds very frustrating. She does what she can to stop this. She counts down the days to the next holidays.

Yet she stays there “muddling along”. She seems to believes with limited academic qualifications she has no other options, but to wait for a redundancy package. Her organisation would fund training but it’s not for her. Yet with her skills and in the Celtic Tiger economy, she has plenty of options, yet she can’t see them.

That’s what happens when you stay too long in a job you hate. Your self confidence starts decreasing and you begin to doubt your own judgement and can start feeling inferior. In worse case scenarios depression and physical health problems appear.

So this bank holiday week end, take some time out to review how happy you are with your working life. Make sure you're not letting a need for security outweigh your need for job satisfaction. Life is too short.


We featured in the Irish Independent last Thursday in an article on “muddling along”. You can use this article to kick start this self review process by clicking here which brings you to the Irish Independent loadzajobs.ie web site. (For copy right reasons we can't publish here)


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