#MentalHealth #WorkLifeBalance #Happiness #CareerSatisfaction #Fulfillment
Feeling overwhelmed and unfulfilled with your current job? You’re not alone. Many individuals find themselves in the same situation, questioning the purpose of spending the majority of their lives in a career that brings them no joy or satisfaction. But before you make any drastic decisions, let’s explore some steps you can take to improve your situation and find a career that brings you true fulfillment and happiness.
##Understanding Your Current Situation
It’s important to take a step back and assess your current job and lifestyle. Are you feeling overworked and unappreciated? Does your job align with your passions and values? Understanding the root of your dissatisfaction is the first step in making a change.
##Prioritizing Self-Care and Wellbeing
In the midst of a hectic work schedule, it’s crucial to prioritize self-care and wellbeing. Taking time for yourself, whether it’s through exercise, meditation, or hobbies, can greatly improve your mental and emotional health.
##Exploring Alternative Career Paths
If you’re feeling trapped in a job that brings you no joy, it may be time to explore alternative career paths. Consider your passions, interests, and skills, and research potential careers that align with these aspects.
##Seeking Professional Help
If you’re feeling overwhelmed and depressed, it’s important to seek professional help. Speaking with a therapist or counselor can provide you with the support and guidance you need to navigate through your feelings and make informed decisions about your career.
##Networking and Skill Building
Building a strong network and honing your skills can open up a world of opportunities in a new career. Consider attending networking events, taking courses, and seeking mentorship to expand your knowledge and connections.
##Creating a Plan of Action
Once you’ve assessed your situation and explored potential career paths, it’s time to create a plan of action. Set realistic goals and timelines for making a career transition, whether it’s through further education, skill-building, or networking.
##Embracing Change and Taking Risks
Making a career change often involves taking risks and embracing change. While it may be daunting, remember that true fulfillment and happiness often come from stepping outside of your comfort zone and pursuing your passions.
##Finding Balance in Your Life
Ultimately, it’s important to find a balance in your life that allows you to pursue both your career aspirations and personal happiness. Whether it’s through flexible work arrangements, remote work options, or setting boundaries, finding a balance is essential for overall wellbeing.
Remember, your mental health and happiness should always be a top priority. Don’t be afraid to make the necessary changes to find fulfillment in your career and life. It’s never too late to pursue a path that brings you joy and satisfaction. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and in need of support, consider reaching out to a professional or a trusted individual for guidance. Your happiness is worth it. #CareerSatisfaction #Happiness #MentalHealth
>Yes I am definitely depressed
Yes, you are. That is where you need to start in your search for answers.
Similar boat. I’m at a point where I don’t see myself able to get a w-2 job anymore and stuck until my car breaks down, I wind up homeless. After that is anyone’s guess.
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I don’t know you, you don’t know me, but I hope you have some faith in this: I believe it can get better.
I personally know how difficult it is to get the “professional help” everyone says you should get if you’re feeling this way, but I also know it is worth it. I hope you look into it. Between now and then, if things get really bad I recommend calling the Crisis Lifeline (if you’re in the US) at 988. I’ve called it before and they really helped me in dire moment for me.
If you want to vent to someone, a stranger that won’t judge you, please DM me. Hell, just type something up to me and decide later if you want to send it or delete it.
I truly wish you the best.
Same here pal
I see where you are coming from, but that’s why I always tried my best to do a job that I feel at least a little bit passionate about and that gives me a sense of fulfilment and purpose. Having tasted what it means to do a job you don’t like, I can’t imagine being able to do it for 40 odd years.
Do I always succeed? Fuck no. But at least I’m in constant search for it.
You have to stop and think about what makes you passionate or at least you enjoy doing that can be a decently paid job and try and pursue that.
Work from home really removed that cloud from over my head. Then they made us come in again. Starting a job in a month that’s only one day in. Fuck this place
Real
Yup. I’m out very soon. Even my boomer mother is dumb enough or brainwashed enough (idk which) to support capitalists and say fast food workers don’t deserve a living wage because “it’s easy.”
This is the realisation that could free you!
Free you to do whatever you want (if it doesn’t do harm) since the alternative is death.
And that defeatism is what allows the system to continue, allows it to be inflicted on yet even more people who come to the same conclusion.
Its a shitty reality to live in, but giving up hope is what the people who profit off this system want you to do. You staying here, everyday, is a giant FU to them at every possible moment.
Organize, coordinate, get involved in your community. Fight for a new system.
“I don’t see how switching jobs will change anything”
The job and its management, hours, workload, commute, all of it DOES make a difference. I can say from personal experience.
As someone who has struggled with depression as well, I hope you can find a support network and a creative outlet. It helps to find purpose outside of work. Best of luck to you.
Start a union at your work, don’t feel stress cause stress
My goal is to outlive my folks then pull the eject lever. Both in their late 70s. As long as they have a dignified exit then I’ll consider my job done. Once they’re gone I’ve got fuck all to stick around for.
I figure that gives me 7-10 years. 3650 days. I can easily BS my way through that.
I plan on working another 7-8 years before I just take my kayak and truck and go live under a bridge somewhere in the Keys. Society is just grating on me and I’m only 36.
look for seasonal work that allows you to collect unemployment in the off season. it’s a secret to defeating that feeling of being mundane and a piece of meat. the off season go travel or do staycations to rejuvenate. it’s not exactly criminal but it feels like stealing.
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You don’t need to be a millionaire to do nothing. My cousin Rick is broke as fuck n don’t do shit
Find something you enjoy doing.
Where do you live? I feel the exact same way except I made a plan and am working toward moving to a cheaper COL area. I’m from southern CA and the COL here is absurd. However I found places in rural Northern CA that I could potentially afford to buy with a bartending job. I don’t mind working hard and have said I would shovel shit as long as it payed me enough to live my life. Want for less and you’ll be far happier. Find things you do enjoy in this world and work to have the ability to do them. Remember that you shouldn’t be living to work. Work to live
Do the least possible at work and encourage others to do the least. Unionize your workplace. Eat the shareholders, executives, and at least 1 manager lol
I’d rather be homeless than generate wealth for anyone who has it better off than me. I’m not gonna get poverty wages while I risk getting hit by cars, develop blisters on my feet, and get callouses, just so my boss can buy another mansion.
I also won’t exploit others’ labour. I guess I’m shit out of luck.
I feel the same way. I wish I had access to a service or program where I could die painlessly. Maybe I could donate my organs. I think about it every day, and I have thought about it for years. I see no point in existing. The world gets worse every day and people around me say I need to “cheer up” and “make the most of what we have left”. This is toxic positivity, and talking to people who think that way is something that makes me want to leave this life. These are the people who are making the world worse.
Why not devote your life to meaningfully fighting back against the group of people who hoard billions in wealth. Way more badass than dying
Yep. It’s seems like each job starts off good (maybe) but it’s just moving from one hell to the other.
As a woman, I had my share of shit jobs. I’m qualified as a teacher and a hair stylist. Teaching was the worst. I returned to hair stylist and worked with a great group of people, no manager. I stayed for 12 years. It was a chain salon , they screwed us over whenever they could but my coworkers made it doable.
Never worked but i always got even more depressed than i already was whenever i would look for a job.
Going to work having no so or any type of support structure would be literal hell for me.
I could see why some work shitty jobs and struggle hard when they have partners but you have nobody ,working becomes pointless.
I wake up at 3:30am, leave by 3:45, and at work by 5, work till 4-6ish, at home by 5-7. I make $22/hr and I get 2 weeks vacation. I have to use my weekends to batch prepare meals in order to meet my needs for the week. I have next to no time to spare and if I do I’m sacrificing my needs for my wants.
I run my own business and feel the same 😞 I don’t make much money, get nothing saved for my pension or sick pay and after 5 years my body is starting to malfunction and I’m really worried I can’t do it anymore. But after 6 years of being out of the corporate world noone is going to want to hire me so I’m feeling pretty helpless.
So then don’t. Do what you want in life because you’re right – slaving for money is insane.
There’s PLENTY of good work that needs doing in life – go do some of it!
generalstrikeus.com join the movement to throttle this bullshit
Something tells me a mass suicide would be a huge turn on for government.
Your feelings are valid and shared by hundreds of millions of Americans. I encourage you to take your anger and channel it against what oppresses all of us in this manner: capitalism.
Join the club….Fight Club that is
I finished college, moved out of parents to capital, got a job, i live my life. I actually enjoy that i can help with my skills to other people. The pay isnt bad either, but at least im not stressed at all.
There’s a beautiful exit plan where you can live in a vehicle, save a ton of money and only have to work part time. You can do way more in life when your expenses aren’t that high. You just want to live somewhere where winter doesn’t dip to – 30.C
I would love to wake up 7. I have to get up at 4AM, get to work around 5AM. Have to clock in before 5:30 AM. Work until 4PM get to sit in traffic for at minimum an hour so I usually don’t get home until 5PM. Have to be in bed at the latest by 8PM to get 8 hours of sleep but I never do and it’s never enough for me because I’m not a morning person at all. It sucks since my job is a bit laborious too but at least I get a 3 day weekend. My coworkers don’t understand why all I do every weekend is sleep
So go do something you do care about? If you aren’t happy make changes, they certainly won’t be easy but if you are already miserable then what do you have to lose?
Gonna be serious a minute…do you think this is anything new? Just listen to popular music from any decade…from “Sixteen Tons” in the ‘40s, to “Boomer” Bruce Springsteen in the 80s, to Nirvana in the 90s…
Is it just there wasn’t a platform for the earlier generations ?
You have to create your own work/life balance, OP. I know that isn’t what you want to hear but it’s true. Until things change on a grand scale in corporate America, it is what it is. I see my job as a way to get money for the things I WANT to do. Yeah, I’m tired when I get home, but I make myself do things I like. I paint, I play music, I play video games, I watch anime with my wife, I go for walks. I try to do as many chores during the week so when my weekend is here I can CHILL and do fun things. If you fill your time with things that are meaningful to you the work time doesn’t seem as bad. This is what works for me, it may not work for everyone else, but it’s food for thought.
It’s either that or homelessness
30 mins to be awake? That’s called my drive to work.
I’m up at 7 quick spray and get dressed to be there for half 7.
I fix computers out of my home on my own time and I’ve never been happier. Find something you can do on your time. It’s a literal life saver.
Yo, don’t take yourself out; you’re not the problem. Billionaires are. If you’re gonna go early, go doing something to leave the world a better place.
Agreed! I wish I was dead every second of every day.
Capitalism is fine with that.
The point is to join up with other workers who are just as tired and fed up as you are and change the fucking game.
Gather
Fight
Win
We need a future and that’s the only way to do it.
Be thankful you get a shit paycheck unlike others like myself with no paycheck now
Life’s all about perspective. You could have bombs flying over your house. Try being enthusiastic and positive starting from hour 1 in your day. That usually dictates how the rest of my day is going to go. Be wise with your time and breaks, do something productive instead of zoning out on your phone. Working out is not something to take for granted either. Your health is everything, affects your mood, energy, etc. I never had a work out and then said “I really wish I didn’t” even though we all dread getting in the car and going to the gym.
Also I think it does make a difference in what you do for work, if your doing something you hate and don’t care about, and can’t convince yourself to like it, then yea it makes sense why you are dreading life. Figure out what you do enjoy, and make baby steps to get into that spot. I hate my job too, but I am in licensing currently to be a real estate agent. If that doesn’t satisfy me, rinse and repeat. Keep your head up, we’re all confused and on the same boat. Life is what you make it, and it’s all about perspective.
Those of us who feel this way need to organize since we don’t have much to lose anyway and fight for what’s right.
There are a lot of people who feel this way and live homeless by choice. Maybe that’s for you?