First Step toward Gratifying work

Your Career or Job

Why does it make it so interesting ever since before till now.

Approximately 80 % or more people life in world depends on it. You’ve heard people said “My job is my life”. but for some people “My job also is also my sadness”.

Well if job it is the life itself then rules of life do applied right ?

According to  SALARY.COM annual report on Employee Satisfaction and Retention Survey it’s found that 65 percent of 7141 individuals admitted to passively or actively looking for a new job or thinking about starting a business. For me I believed the number is more than that.

Off course to make it more reliable statement then I should invite the audiences to support me.

Question :

1. Did you ever thought about moving to another job

2. Did you ever thinking of starting new business

3. Did you ever saying to your boss you will stay on these jobs forever

The paradox logic is if we do love our job why we would ever consider move to another one. Just like logic law stated about the law of non contradiction taken from Thomas catchcar & Daniel Klein understanding philosophy of logic said that you can’t  be both so and not be so at the same time.

I love these jobs but I am considering move to another one also. Off course you still have lot of following reason for sure

Ok now shall we put aside about the conflict and comeback later

I want you all to see from different angle and focus of what brought unsatisfied situation at work that eventually leading to the need of to change your job

First and foremost is you got to know what is your work situation that you are facing right now. Because  it will enable you to isolate and focus on original cause that drive you to  change your job based on your current situation instead of drowning on mixed life competing demand.

To prevent you unintentionally mixed unrelated issue on made decision about your job. That’s why we lead you to frame your work situation as first step. Based on Julie Jansen book of how to find gratifying job there is six work situation that we generally deal with.

Where is the meaning  these kind of person are looking for reward and satisfaction. They may seeking personal fulfillment or driven by strong desire to help others in need. I have friend name Cokro Chandra, he spent 2 year working in back office job in one of foreign banking. Through the first year he said albeit the income is nice but found his job was taken much of his social life and deals with numbers and document. Unfortunately his been downsized his company at the end of second year. He took some off and found his self working in Prudential life insurance, despite the income may not stable like the previous job but he is more happy and got his social life back. His fulfill his need to help other manage their financial plan with his experience as banker before. It took him 3 years struggling to have solid foundation of job but today Cokro is someone that confident about his life and set for big goals ahead.

Been there, done that but still need to earn,  You are enjoying successesful career but can’t imagine to continue these kind of work that you’ve been doing for long time. But with a big But here you really need to continue earning the same amount of money for certain period. Many of us actually fallen onto these type. Easy to say is your lifestyle demanded you to keep earn the same amount or more. Robert Tiyosaki call these “ Rat Race”

Bruised and gun-shy

Did you felt life is fair ? or you have been treated fair in your work

I believed everyone here had this kind of experiences among stages in your jobs. The time u actually felt beaten, unappreciated, torturer, and even some severe case you unfairly laid off from your job. There no always mr or mrs nice guys all the time. That’s fact of life, sometimes is not about you who is wrong. But the most important thing is to know that up to know generally speaking being laid off or treated unfair has not been known to kill someone yet. But constant feeling of depressed could be severe case. Nelly is one of among administration staff that was assigned to support me in my project in Surabaya during my tenure worked with Sampoerna. One time I came over to her desk asked about her situation, she often had problem with stomach and looked pale. She confess to me that her bos always pressure on her and never give appreciation and felt unfair treatment among other girls in administration. Short story the bos kind of jealous with her experience and skills that somewhat better. She felt these kind of situation affected her health conditions and thinking of resigned.

Remember unfair situation on work environment directly affected all part of our life. if we don’t overcome it properly it drown us even worse

Bored and Plateaued, You are now working for company almost 4 years in the same position, seems like the promotion ladder has not came yet due to today organization leaning and restructuring, and economic downturn. Your peers, colleque, family regard you as an expert in your field and your have decent place in your association. Suddenly you felt empty, unchallenged and lost all your motivation that was once fire boldy in your ealier career.

Well life is like roller coaster right , when we hit the top then followed the downturn is ahead. Beware bored and plateaued is not always happen all the time. You might be bored sometimes due to burnout on few weeks meeting the date line but plateaued happen when your career is stuck and you don’t learn and develop anymore. That is the hidden risk that might lead to lose of your foothold in your field.

Yearning to be your own, recently we heard about the wave of entreprenuerhsip force that said become the new buzz of the 21 century. Some slogan even said like these “ Be your own boss”, its like the answer to all the career people pray . Actually most of us  fall into two situation, first intentionally enterpreneuership that arose from the realization of the career world will not met his needs or the strong desire to have more control and responbility over their work life. second is accidentally enterprenuership, it comes as result of being laid off with not viable option except to make it their own through self employment. A lot of business pioneer were born in these way.

Many people I’ve met before complaining about his or her work life plus thinking about changing  their job as the only answered. Yes its true changes your job might change and improve your life to be better. But most of the case still we had many people eventually disappointed after made changes decision in life. how can it be ?.

That because we made decision base only on our temporary impulsive and disappointment that somehow might mixed with anger, frustration, and pressure from society and etc. We all knew that if we sick we got to be diagnose by doctor to be identified what is the cause then following by prescription. Same things applied here also. If you felt that your work life is not running as you intented to be or you need some changes but you don’t what it is.

Then you need to know what is your work situation currently, do take your time and understand 5 work situation that I’ve mentioned before and sees if you fit into one or more the situation. Once you done then now you have clear picture of what next action should be.

Believed me without that you will wandering around that mostlikely you will trap onto your own emotion and temporary stressfull situation that drive you made decision that you might regret later on.

Its your life by the way take a lead not just followed.