- It can be a long drawn-out process or a sudden realization that leads you to understand the job you have now is not right for you.
- Question is what are the signs that can tell you you’re in the wrong type of job?
- This article showcases 7 of the most telltale signs that can give you an indication that maybe it’s time you move from where you’re working now.
It’s not a reassuring feeling to know that you’re holding down a job that isn’t to your liking. You may feel as if you are wasting your time, or that the job and/or business culture in which you work not only disagrees with your idea of culture but furthermore is holding you back.
Of course, there are signs that can lead up to your dissatisfaction of your job, some of them subtle, some of them not so subtle. Nonetheless they are there because other workers such as yourself have come to the same conclusion of their place of work no longer being what it was first imagined as being.
To realize what 7 of those most prominent signs are, keep reading this article which was inspired by an article recently published on Inc.com.
- Your core beliefs no longer align with the company's mission.
Regardless of your salary, if you are at a crossroads with your employer’s products or services, your paycheck becomes a bi-weekly bribe.
Knowing this will make you feel like a sell-out, which you will continue to feel until you are disengaged and resentful from your day-to-day work routine.
Things will only worsen as you will soon get a feeling that you are held hostage by your pay. This can turn into conflict, discordance and resentment. You might become embittered and maintain a dislike for your manager as well as fellow employees who “just put up with it.”
Eventually, your attitude might get the best of you which more than likely risk the inevitable end to your job because your defiance has turned you into a less-than-stellar performer.
- You and your co-workers have nothing in common.
It’s important to have friends, or at the very least, associates within your workplace. After all, if you have to work with them, you may as well get along with them, and on occasion, share some common interests.
In short, there needs to be a sense of connection as being part of a tribe (even at work) is a human instinct.
As the article on Inc.com states, when you get along with your co-workers, it's easier to solve problems, address concerns, give feedback, and work together to get rewarding results.
Contrarily, a lack of bonding with teammates leads to mistakes, finger-pointing and eventual job loss.
- You disrespect your boss or manager(s).
By nature, management can be a difficult to get along with. However, it’s different when you don't value the contributions of management.
Having no value or trust in those above your position can lead you to a point in which you may doubt your manager(s) guidance.
Sure, there are times when an employee may not like their boss. Yet if yourboss’s work is productive and useful, and their advice positive and sound, you most probably can tolerate their personality.
However, if you feel they're hurting the business more than helping it, then you will find it difficult to feel a sense of accomplishment.
As Inc.com states, working for someone you don't respect is the ultimate career-satisfaction killer.
- Your current job and your career goals are not on the same page.
Without a doubt, every job is temporary. Blame whatever you want for this phenomenon; a tight employment market in which employees can come and go from job to job at will, or management that is perceived as lousy through unfair treatment, poor vision or misplaced guidance.
The rate of change in the world means we can't spend our entire lives with one employer. In reality, we are businesses-of-one that must always be thinking about our next career move.
If your ultimate work goals are not being fulfilled with your current position, you won’t be able to explain why you hold onto your job in the first place.
If this is the case, it's time to look for employment that supports your growth and sustains your business-of-one.
- When 5 pm arrives, you’re done.
Simply put, when your goal in life is to not spend a minute more than you have to at work, you are probably in the wrong job.
If you can’t stomach your cubicle, coworkers and boss by day’s end, hanging around at your current job will do nothing to help your cause. Hell, even your paycheck will eventually not be worth it if in the end you dislike your job.
- You are continually negative toward the goings on at work.
Complaining about your job may release some steam from inside you, but eventually, the continual negativity you hold and/or display to others will soon become untenable, putting at risk your job (through your attitude) and your relationship with others.
Friends and family may find your ongoing complaints a depressing drag. No one wants to hear only disheartening work stuff coming from you.
In that vein, you should consider those you trust most, and what those must think of you as you are continually complaining about your work. Simply put, if you call friends and family each night to recap the drama and agony you endured in the office that day, it's time to move on.
You don’t want to stick yourself into a situation in which all anyone hears from you are grievances and moans. Keep up that sort of attitude and sooner or later your friends and family may not want to speak with or hang out with you much longer.
- You use after work booze and binging to cope.
If you spend many nights trying to recover from work, something is wrong. While jobs can be tiring, yours should not come to a point where the mental and physical detriment of your employment encourages you to pour a double once you get home, crank on the TV or troll social media most of the night throughout your work week.
If you can't muster the energy to engage in healthy self-care and self-development after work, it's time to look closely at what's draining you daily.
Conclusion.
Truly happy employees can be found, and yes, a bitter employee from another company may feel complete dismay over the first employee’s happiness.
However, keep in mind that the happy employee probably put the extra work in and went beyond what he or she needed to do to ensure their work-related satisfaction, including quitting a less than stellar work situation to gain improved employment.
If you feel your job has let you down to a point where you continuously complain about your work situation and its culture, a change is due.
After all, each of us has to work. So to that end, it does us no good to remain with a job that makes us miserable. It’s simply not worth it.
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