You open your eyes, and a feeling of dread washes over you. It’s a weekday, which means it’s a workday, which makes work one of the last places you’d like to be.
Or maybe you don’t feel dread, exactly. Instead, it’s a vague feeling. Something between despair and delight – perhaps indifference. You’re not particularly excited about your job. But you’re also not running for the hills.
Either way, your job isn’t doing it for you: You’re feeling blah.
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Thanks for this article. I was feeling isolated with this problem and your article helped me to realize many others are experiencing this feeling. Thanks for the tips making changes.
Gio
Identifying the source of your ‘blahs’ is key. If you’re in a job misfit that is undermining your health and well-being (#1 workplace disability in North America today is depression), then you need to consider changing jobs or careers. I suggest that each individual can make better career choices by understanding not only their values and priorities but their unique combination of talent, aptitudes, education, experience and character. Job satisfaction and success is easier to achieve when an individual performs a job in accordance with their complex and unique pattern of personal motivations. The key word here is “pattern.” It means that each person is greater than the sum total of his or her parts, but when all the parts come together they create something unique and special, even powerful. Identifying and defining the key success factors of your pattern, then matching that pattern with specific jobs in specific work settings is not obvious or self-evident; it requires a systematic, deliberate, and intentional analysis of not only childhood fascinations, or young adult interests, but a deeper analysis of times in your life when you are doing what you enjoy most both at work and outside of work. Here’s a webinar with a case study that shows exactly how that analysis is done, and the match made to a jobfit that increases job satisfaction and income: http://www.jobjoy.com/webinar-registration/
One of my responsibilities as a trainer of our teams is to remind colleagues of the inevitable “blahs”, fatigue and “burnout” that is so common among people-helpers.
Self-care, prayer and a supportive mutually accountable community are essential for my health as a professional.