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🤔 How do you guys make going to work suck less? 😩
Let’s face it – we’ve all had those days when the mere thought of going to work fills us with dread. But fear not, because there are ways to make the daily grind a little less, well, grinding. Here are some tips and tricks to help you make work suck less and maybe even find some enjoyment in your day-to-day routine.
## Understanding the root of the problem
First things first, it’s important to understand why going to work feels like such a chore. Once you identify the main issues, you can start working on solutions to make your workdays more bearable.
### Identifying the problem areas
– Long commute
– Lack of motivation
– Monotonous tasks
## Creating a more enjoyable work experience
Now that you’ve pinpointed the areas that make going to work tough, it’s time to find ways to make things better. Let’s explore some strategies to make your workdays a little brighter.
### Making the most of your commute
A long commute can be a major source of stress and frustration. Here’s how you can make your journey to and from work more pleasant:
1. Listen to engaging podcasts or audiobooks to make the time fly by.
2. Take scenic routes to enjoy the drive and break the monotony.
### Boosting motivation and morale
Feeling uninspired at work can make the days drag on endlessly. Try these tactics to inject some enthusiasm back into your work life:
– Set small, achievable goals to give yourself something to strive for.
– Find opportunities for growth and learning within your role, such as pursuing additional training or taking on new challenges.
### Breaking the monotony
If your work feels repetitive and monotonous, it’s time to shake things up. Here’s how you can inject variety into your daily routine:
– Take short breaks throughout the day to clear your mind and refresh yourself.
– Seek out opportunities to collaborate with coworkers or take on new projects to add variety to your workload.
## Cultivating a positive work environment
Your workplace environment plays a big role in determining your overall job satisfaction. Consider these strategies for creating a more pleasant work atmosphere:
– Foster positive relationships with your colleagues to cultivate a supportive and collaborative environment.
– Take steps to manage stress and maintain a healthy work-life balance, such as setting boundaries around your working hours and taking regular breaks.
## Seeking help and support
If you’re still struggling to make going to work more manageable, don’t be afraid to reach out for assistance. Whether it’s talking to your manager about your concerns or seeking help from a professional, there are resources available to support you in finding greater satisfaction in your work.
In conclusion, while making going to work suck less may seem like a daunting task, there are proactive steps you can take to improve your work experience. By addressing the root causes of your dissatisfaction and taking proactive measures to create a more positive work environment, you can find greater fulfillment and enjoyment in your day-to-day job. Remember, you deserve to feel happy and fulfilled in your work, and with the right strategies in place, you can make that a reality. So go forth and conquer those workday blues!
*I don’t want to be homeless either but that’s not great motivation to go to work everyday.*
Then I suggest you start preparing to be homesless.
Time for you to become an adult. You have choices and those choices have consequences. If you know that if you don’t have a job you’ll be homeless. What more of a motivation do you need?
You have choices:
1. Not work and face homelessness.
2. Work a job you don’t like and not face homelessness.
3. Work a job you don’t like while you look for a job that you like and not face homelessness.
Take your pick.
Therapy. You sound depressed.
Also, make goals. You don’t have to work there forever and I’m assuming you have a CDL. Lots of things you can do with that.
I like going to the gym before work, gives me a bit of a dopamine-high before starting a long ass 9-5.
I’m surrounded by competent co-workers and managers. They make the job easier. When I get home, I come home to a great wife, a dog, and videogames.
I kind of feel you. I work nightshifts and most of the time there is nothing to do. Like I literally can play video games all night and no one cares. Still I am getting very bored of it. The pay is ok too. But idk. Maybe you need to find a new job? Or try to find a hobby while you are doing your job. Something small. Maybe listen to a different podcast that you didn’t listen to before? Or see if you can get a different position within the company. May be you need to take a vacation? Sometimes when you go on vacation, you come back relaxed.
Need to get your mind right for any type of success
Choose a new job, a new career that you can feel good about.
Easy – I recall times when I didn’t have a work to go to and how much more that sucked.
1. I recommend working out. Working out teaches you to push through pain, as you build the habit of working out, you will workout wether you feel like it or not
2. Meditation- it has great effects on your mental health
3. Read everyday for at least 30 minutes
4. Have goals. Figure out why you need to work, for me it’s to pay my mortgage and to save for retirement
5. Talk about how your feeling with someone (family,friends, therapist)
6. Go to work wether you feel like it or not, if you let your mind talk you out of doing something, you give it power, beat your mind by doing it anyway
Think about the big fat paycheck at the end of every month.
Date cute boss(es) 😉
It used to be that taking a week off would “reset” the clock on my misery, but lately that week off just reinforces the misery.
This is a no brainer, pal. I don’t know your life habits but you knww since the beginning that people have to work to survive. It’s the reality and of course, you are entitled to spending your savings to anything you want.
But the ones i have met just like you are open to sharing that they go through depression and that earning money doesnt make them happy. Either go with your day being an adult or go seek help. If you are living with your parents or have a stable living situation, please take advantage of the time you could use for yourself.
Easy, get a job you like, or love, and that excites you to go to work each day!
In my late teens and early 20s I was working in restaurants, even moving up to be a manager, but didn’t like that I worked nights and weekends when everyone else was relaxing and playing.
I vowed I would not be in the restaurant business by the time I was 25!
To accomplish this I spent my free time at bookstores and libraries to read and explore what was of interest and excited me. I gravitated towards computers and technology which I could not get enough of. Over the next couple of years I learned all I could and taught myself the basics then was hired at a computer store. That was 30ish years ago and am now retired early from a big name tech company.
During those years I still jumped out of bed each morning and couldn’t wait to go to work. I often had to figuratively “pinch myself” as it was hard to believe the great job I had plus how far I had gone from that restaurant job.
Is driving truck your dream? Would another type of driving job be better? Limo? Bus? OTR?
If not driving, then what would excite you everyday? Most people know what this might be, but few want to acknowledge it or that it is possible as the job we have is the safest place to be.
Do some soul searching to find out what your dream job is and then see what it would take to at least break into the industry or business. Even if getting the dream job is not successful who knows where it might lead as you may find something similar.
Everybody doesn’t have the will power to be successful. I’d start with diet, sleep and exercise.
You have to live for things other than work. And find a job you don’t hate and can tolerate.
People are shitting on you in the replies, but what you’re feeling is very normal. There are a few ways to help.
From my experience, the two biggest ones are: Routine and Purpose. If you can build and maintain a routine, and find purpose, you’ll be fine.
You don’t. Have a life outside of work. Or bond with people in it. That’s it if you don’t want to change jobs/careers.
When you are done with work for the day, leave work at work!
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Find a hobby you enjoy (video games, golf, hiking, art, reading, whatever) and do not associate it with your job.
You say you don’t want to work, but if you did not have to work, what would you spend your days doing?
See a doctor. I’m guessing you are depressed. Suffering. Try to be active. Pick a hobby and keep at it. Hopefully you will start to love life.
Try working a job way shittier than the one you are doing for years and then come back to this job. Then you’ll be grateful and you will be happy to go to work every day.
Why aren’t you happy at work? The work itself or the people? If it’s the latter, there will always be issues with people. But if it’s the job itself, you could try finding out what you actually want to do. My wife has been in the same situation but hasn’t tried switching jobs. I recommended to her to take an online survey to figure out what would fit with her personality. She found some suggestions but didn’t feel like changing jobs. I then told her that she could either change her outlook on the job or look for something else. Finding the reasons why you are unhappy would be the first step. Then it’ll be easier to figure out how to change that.
I had this issue because i didnt have much to do at work, even when i went i couldnt stay for long. I finally got another job i am busier so time flies easier.
How often have you been feeling like this? I do think it’s natural for someone to feel this way a few times a year, sometimes your subconscious negative thoughts creep up and you cant help yourself. Sometimes you just have a bad day, or week(s).
If you’ve been feeling like this for several months, then I’d say you a bigger problem with your job or depression. If within the past few months you’ve had really good days, or days where you feel like you’re killing it at work, then this may just be a natural temporary lull.
I don’t know how old you are, but it seems you are relatively new to the job or workforce. Part of being a responsible adult is learning how to do things you don’t want to do because there is a bigger picture goal (avoiding homelessness, supporting your family, a stepping stone to the next job, etc.)
Are you asking how to have emotional control and grit? I can’t give that to you, no one can.
If you’re miserable, or can’t hack real work, get fucking busy learning a new skill and find a gig that you can tolerate.
Enjoying your work is ultimately a decision.
Stick with it. Consider, given that this is the holidays, and a dark time of year (Seasonal Affective Disorder) for some that “this too will pass”. Spring is right around the corner.
Overall sounds like you have a good deal for a job. Switch up the podcasts or books on tape you listen to. Try listening to a different genre of book like classics or mystery. Appreciate that you have the freedom to switch up the mental content of your job because many white collar jobs that people seek that have intellectual stimulation often become boring after awhile but there is no “escape” to some other form of intellectual stimulation.
Start a gratitude list which psychologically trains you to find good things as they occur in life.
Learn to do some type of mental meditation like mindfulness while you drive as ultimately the problem you describe is one of the mind and not of the job. It doesn’t take long to dig into any wisdom tradition to find that nothing in life can make you happy if you don’t know how to put your thoughts and mind and attention on some right things.
Work a job you enjoy, that’s how.
If you’re working somewhere and you don’t enjoy it, you have 2 choices:
1. Stay there and be miserable.
2. Find a job doing something you like.
It’s really that simple.
Good luck.
Such an important post, as it’s getting to the heart of things. What do you like? How are you eating? Are you getting exercise? What are your values? Seems like you’re interested in learning. Community and family?
I’m going to give some straight-forward advice because it sounds like you haven’t had a father figure in your life to help teach you these things. It may not be what you want to hear or what anyone else who reads this wants to hear but I think you need to hear it.
It does suck to work. Unless you have family connections, grow up wealthy, or win the lottery, you will have to work hard in school, in the workplace, and on yourself in order to make the situation better. The majority of people in this world wake up early, go to work, get home late, and then enjoy maybe 3-5 hours (if they are lucky) with their loved ones and/or doing what they like doing only to go to sleep and repeat the process multiple times a week.
My advice is this:
1. Do the difficult things (whatever they may be) first and immediately whenever you can. The longer you dwell on them and procrastinate, the more damage it does to you. Just get the difficult thing done A.S.A.P. so you can get to the more enjoyable things.
2. Be confident in yourself and love yourself. You are your own worst enemy and your own best friend. How you treat yourself is directly proportional to how you will treat others.
3. Always do your best at your job. Most people say to only do 50-60% of your potential but always do 100%. If you are not ever recognized for doing 100%, find someone that does recognize it. This step is the most uncomfortable step at first but once you realize your self-worth it becomes easier.
4. Treat others with respect. If others do not reciprocate, stop wasting your time with them. If you are required to work with them, work with them, but do not compromise your own happiness or integrity or the company’s policies.
5. Document your work, admit when you make a mistake, and praise others when they do well. Others will respect you more for doing this and even look up to you. If you ever get criticized about your work, pull up your screenshots, timesheets, e-mails, whatever you have to back you up.
6. Cherish the small wins and qualities of life you are allowed to indulge at work that can make it more enjoyable. If you’re allowed to listen to music, and you like music, do it. If you are allowed to take two fifteen minute breaks, take them and get some peace of mind in those breaks.
If you follow these simple rules you will be on much better footing.
Good luck.
Go to school and get a career path that allows you to work remotely
Making rich assholes richer will never not suck. Find a job you tolerate. Build mutual aid so you and others have safety nets. Build community. Gives you leverage to leave shit jobs, or risk organizing at your job.
Therapy, exercise routines, developing good/better habits are all solid points.
Could also be burnout…
What you need for work is a sense of purpose. When you go to work every day, clock in and clock out, making little impact, it’s going to become monotonous.
Sure, you can think that propane is going to heat a home or let a family cook a meal, but this doesn’t sound fulfilling to you.
Think about your interests and skills, and try to find a job that lets you develop them. Or find a role that allows you to develop skills you would like to have.
Be careful not to mix hobbies with work. It’s important to have a hobby you do for fun versus putting food on your table. So if you love fixing cars in your spare time, don’t rush to get a job as a mechanic. This will help you reduce the risk of burnout.
Think about what would be fulfilling to you and search for roles in that field. If you do well at your job and have a good relationship with your boss, but just hate it, talk to them about doing something else in the company.
If your boss isn’t someone you can confide in…tread lightly with this conversation and keep it to, “I want to see what other departments I can excel in here.”
Listen to music and audiobooks instead.
Gotta work your ass off to find a job you enjoy or tolerate but once you get there it’s so worth it
Two things. One, have a job you love (or at least don’t dislike). At minimum get one you feel neutral about. Secondly, and this is the part you may not want to hear, be a mature, disciplined adult and do hard things that you don’t feel like doing. Life isn’t all fun. Prioritize your medium- and long-term wellbeing and success over short-term gratification. As responsible adults, we have to do plenty of things we don’t feel like doing, including going in to work when we’d rather do nothing or do something fun. That’s the price we pay for independence, prosperity, and wellbeing.
Reminding myself what the money is for and that it’s leading me to my goals—the job is just a necessary stepping stone to get there.
And counting the hours. I’m a teacher and I count down from the second I walk through the door. For some that might make it worse, but for me, it definitely helps seeing the exact light at the end of the tunnel each day and knowing exactly when I’m getting to it.
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I try to make it fun in some way or leave. Sure all work has challenges but I always find ways to enjoy it too. So far I have never regretted that approach. I’m not sure that’s safe advice, but so far I can say… it works for me.
The list of how to make it fun is long, but some ways include seeking out like minded co-workers, writing creative fiction on my breaks, blasting music on my way to work, getting revved up with red bulls, always striving to do an awesome job, and so on.