Dissatisfied with your job? Stop Trying to Go it Alone!

Written by Doreen Banaszak, www.getunslumped.com


Being dissatisfied with your job is a cycle, a very long and undesirable cycle. Here’s how it goes:

-You start to lose interest in your job. Next thing you know you start to dread Monday’s and long for Fridays. Your energy, confidence, creativity and excitement feel like they are being drained from you.

Then you start to think maybe there is a better job out there for you. You begin to envision what that job might be, but then you get scared or feel like it will be too much work to move on from where you are.

Now you think things could be worse andrepparttar money is good, so you’ll stay. You seem to have more energy and you start finding things you can be interested in. Your confidence, creativity and excitement start to build again.

A couple of months later you wonder why your energy and interest have dropped, Monday’s are terrible, and your confidence, creativity and excitement are no more.

And so beginsrepparttar 106918 cycle again. You remain in this cycle because as we reviewed in previous articles:

-You believerepparttar 106919 myths -You give away your power -You put your attention on what you don’t want

Andrepparttar 106920 final reason…

-You try to go it alone

Why is it so important that you get help getting unslumped and moving towards work that will REALLY satisfy you? Because you have probably been in your slump cycle for years and haven’t been able to get out of it on your own!

I was in one for 15 years. My clients on average have been in theirs for at least 5 years. Being in a slump wears on your confidence and belief that there is work out there that will really satisfy you and that you can find it.

The crucial time to get support isrepparttar 106921 point inrepparttar 106922 cycle where you start to envision a better job and before you get scared and talk yourself out of it. Havingrepparttar 106923 right support at this time can help to break your cycle!

Face reality - Forced Career Change will happen during your working life.

Written by Michael Harrison


Most of us enterrepparttar world of work as employed and soon start to wish that we could change career or be our own boss.

It is probably true that after a while a large percentage start dreaming they could work from home or start a home based business, few actually do something about it. They continue dreaming

These days this is in explicable because it is possible to change career no matter what your age or profession. There is now less continuity in employment so adaptability and being forcedrepparttar 106917 make a career or job change could face anyone at any time. You are certain to know someone who has faced such a dilema.

Withrepparttar 106918 advent ofrepparttar 106919 computer and associated equipment more and more people are changing career, desertingrepparttar 106920 corporate world and joining those of us who have successfully started our own businesses working from home and who continue to reaprepparttar 106921 benefits of being our own boss.

The technical advances of recent years have made owning and working in your own business not only possible but also practical. This apparent change of career is really a change we make inrepparttar 106922 way we work.

As we progress through life we all acquire skills and experience. It is these skills and experience, which, with imagination and persistence can move you intorepparttar 106923 realms of working in your own home, employed, freelance or in your home based business.

Many people start working from home for their current or some previous employer. The only difference is that they may take responsibility for employment costs, insurance, holiday pay, tax etc.

Telecommuting is now a reality. Approximately 15 million people inrepparttar 106924 USA telecommute in some form. Major employers inrepparttar 106925 UK are actively encouraging this trend.

Working from home requires skills, experience and discipline so it's very important to make an inventory of what you have to offer to employers and or clients. When listing your skills and experience, don't limit yourself to past job experiences.

Include anything that you have learned or can do that is related to a hobby, interest, pastime or volunteer experience.

Skills that translate well into working from home include researching, writing, computer skills, phone communication skills, and sales and marketing experience.

If you are looking to be employed in a work at home jobrepparttar 106926 key is to search where people post jobs. Employers are looking for qualified people to fill genuine vacancies. It isrepparttar 106927 position they advertise, and they advertise on job related sites.

That does not mean that scams will not be posted on job sites but forrepparttar 106928 most part you can be sure that work at home jobs won't be posted in search engines.

If you are looking to offer new clients your freelance services then many ofrepparttar 106929 same job search principles apply but with different terminology.

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