Careers: Discontentment in the Workplace

Discontentment in the Workplace

Written by David Richter

While more people are finding employment, more employed workers are discontent and experiencing frustration. In most cases it can be boiled down to four factors: feeling undervalued, unappreciated and powerless, and world events.

You can possess a tremendous amount of creativity and skill, but if you aren’t given opportunities to utilize and express these qualities to their fullest, frustration can quickly set in. For most employees, there is a huge differential between what they can bring to repparttar table and repparttar 149332 responsibilities they have been given.

It’s rare that you hear of someone working a forty-hour week. These days, fifty and sixty-hour weeks have become commonplace. What hasn’t changed is your compensation. Working a sixty-hour week yet getting paid for forty can feel out of balance. It’s certainly not conducive to feeling appreciated.

If you are a manager, this may sound familiar: You are given responsibility over a project and direct reports, yet you have not been given repparttar 149333 authority to produce positive change. As a result, you feel powerless. It’s similar to being repparttar 149334 commander of a ship with tremendous responsibility, yet not allowed to enforce any rules or have any control over repparttar 149335 environment.

World events have a pronounced effect on our emotions and repparttar 149336 way we tend to approach life. It's been said that a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of repparttar 149337 world affects life around repparttar 149338 globe. We are all interconnected. To look at repparttar 149339 current state of increasing discontent and frustration among employees everywhere as an isolated event may not be an accurate reflection of reality.

Avoid the 11 Costly Mistakes Career-Seekers Make

Written by Bill Dueease

Most people spend approximately 25% to over 67% of their waking hours working. Eventually, most everyone will want to work in a career that they enjoy and are paid well enough to live a prosperous life. Yet, far too many people end up being miserable in their job and find themselves stuck in a career that they did not choose. People then get discouraged, produce less, and become disgruntled. Unfortunately, people then blame themselves or those they work for, when in truth there is rarely anything wrong with them or repparttar

people they work for. Instead, maybe their job selection process is flawed which causes them to fall into repparttar 149284

wrong positions.

You have considerable control over selecting your work conditions to get repparttar 149285 position you are passionate about by following these 11 steps.

Step # 1 Avoid following repparttar 149286 normal trial and error career selection process

You probably follow repparttar 149287 trial and error path to select your job or career. You take jobs that appear to be repparttar 149288 best opportunities and try them out. You adjust to what your bosses and repparttar 149289 companies want in hopes of advancement. You eventually discover that you are stuck in jobs or careers that you really don't like. You might switch to other jobs and try them out and eventually end up in repparttar 149290 same unhappy position. You will want to avoid falling back into repparttar 149291 trial and error selection process.

Step # 2 Avoid following a career path to please others

Many people feel obligated to follow a career to please others or that they feel they “should” pursue. Spousal influence, peer pressure, family tradition, parental pressure, societal pressure, and other outside influences are frequently allowed to dictate career paths. In these situations, you end up working to suit repparttar 149292 needs, wants and expectations of someone other than yourself and deep conflicts arise. These conflicts cause you stress, unhappiness and income reduction. You end up working at a position you do not like and eventually disappoint repparttar 149293 people you wanted to please in repparttar 149294 first place.

Step # 3 Focus first on what you want and enjoy in your ideal career

You have your own inner wants, needs, and feelings. Many times it is easier to follow how others view you than to look for and accept repparttar 149295 truth about yourself. The only way you will know which career is best for you is to focus first on YOU to discover what YOU want and what is important to YOU.

Step # 4 Discover your true passions

Most people are passionate about something, but have suppressed their feelings for a number of reasons. You will want to discover what you are passionate about so you can find repparttar 149296 position that will allow you to feel fulfilled. Your passions are always with you and you probably do not recognize or understand them. You will know you are passionate about something when you become naturally excited just thinking about it and even more excited about doing it.

Step # 5 Discover your true desires and priorities

Most people do not take repparttar 149297 time to discover what their desires and priorities are in life. They seem to just go with repparttar 149298 flow and hope that they are heading in repparttar 149299 right direction. Yet, repparttar 149300 one big reason people feel so frustrated while working is that it conflicts with their true desires and priorities. An example of a desire is: wanting to work outdoors with people. An example of a priority is: placing your family first.

Step # 6 Discover your true values

Everyone has his or her own value system. Unfortunately, people rarely look into their own values and instead frequently accept repparttar 149301 values imposed by repparttar 149302 companies they work for. Just look at repparttar 149303 damage caused to repparttar 149304 many employees of Enron, World Com, Global Crossing and others whose beliefs did not agree with repparttar 149305 misguided values of repparttar 149306 CEO's and higher executives. Were all of repparttar 149307 employees misguided? Certainly not. Yet, most failed to discover their very honest values, and were penalized anyway, because they conflicted with repparttar 149308 values of repparttar 149309 leaders of repparttar 149310 companies.

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