How do you manage a job with 0 job satisfaction?
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Anonymous
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On paper, this job is great. Growth, great salary/benefits, autonomy, full WFH, travel budget and a boss that is wonderful. Typing this out, I feel like you all should tell me I'm an idiot and not to leave this CandyLand. BUTTTTT...the industry and the job is flat out boring. I go to meetings and conferences, sit on internal calls, and i'm just not interested. I feel disconnected and it's extremely hard for me to fake it. I work with some really good people who I'd be friends with, and I feel like I'll be stuck at the "good at her job" but never step into the "rockstar" level. This is in stark contrast to my last job, where I LOVED the industry but the money and WLB didn't exist.
Do I just ride this for a couple years, save the money, and try to escape back to an industry I like? Or am I "grass is greenering" it right now? |
Anonymous
| I’m in my job because I love the schedule and it works well for my family. I don’t find it fulfilling anymore. |
Anonymous
| Change jobs. Life is too short. |
Anonymous
| Grass may be greener. I have the opposite - stressful, mediocre paying job in field I love with great people where I get to be a rockstar. At this point in my life (kids still at home, a lot going on in my family) I’d prefer your option. Depending on your family situation I’d seriously consider waiting it out for awhile or at least being highly selective about what you apply for. |
Anonymous
| I manage it by being 4 years from retirement and telling myself it is better to ride it out than try to start anew at a different workplace. |
Anonymous
| This is a tough one. I guess it depends on where you are in your career early on I’m all about making as much money as possible regardless of how much time it takes now I have a family and I would rather be bored at work so I could spend time with them. |
Anonymous
| Is there something in your personal life that you've been wanting to focus on that could help break your boredom? If the job is boring, but not overwhelming, that seems like a great time to put some energy into another part of life. It's the adage, we can have it all, but not all at the same time |
Anonymous
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Look around carefully.
Think about how much vacation/retirement you are accruing via savings, vs a lower paid more fun job. Fun jobs are hard to get and public image / recruiters lie. |
Anonymous
| Start looking around for something else but in the meantime do your job. |