30 ways to get everything you personally need from a hated job

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Most people gain absolutely nothing with a job change. They end up getting the same things that they had in the last place of work.

It is known that more than 80% of people are unhappy with their work and dream of the day when they can send their boss to hell and take the much-desired resignation letter to the HR department.

I have been working in HR for eight years and I observe those sparkling eyes of a person who came to sign his bypass sheet. His blood is full of adrenaline, he no longer perceives reality adequately, he is all in dreams of a new job and how cool it will be there. Another HR promised him more money, a higher position, love and respect from the team, free cookies in the kitchen and a boss darling.

It is also known that most people gain absolutely nothing with a job change. They end up getting the same things that they had in the last place of work.

Imagine that the salary, the team, the location of the office, the benefits package, the boss, the work schedule, the office environment, the opportunities for development and growth, the brand of the company and its products are all ingredients of a dish called “work”. So, most people change the ingredients: they go to a higher salary in an office that is 15 kilometers further from home, and you need to work 1 hour more every day. The ingredients have changed, but the dish has not improved.

For eight years now, among other things, I have been analyzing the reasons for dismissal in order to fight them later. And in general, my struggle is successful: in all places of work I have reduced the turnover rate from 30-50% to 15-20% and I hope that the thoughts presented in this article will be able to reduce turnover at the national level.

So, among the main reasons for fluidity, the following are the most popular:

• Transition to higher wages.
• Transfer to a higher position.
• The load level at the current place of work is too high.
• Bad boss.
• Changing of the living place.
• Health.

The first four points are the ingredients of our dish, which are usually changed to others, but in the end a person gets the same as a result.

But there are many ways to start enjoying your unloved work without making such drastic changes.

After all, judge for yourself, a job change forces a person:

• Adapt to new responsibilities.
• Adapt to psychological stress (after all, there is a great uncertainty ahead, the risk of dismissal).
• Adapt to social change - New colleagues can be very different from their old ones.
• Adapt to physical changes - a new office location, a new table and chair, a new meal in the dining room, light falls differently from the window, a different temperature regime.

All this can even lead to illness. I often see new hires get sick after only a week or two. And then they go to work as sick, because they are afraid to take sick leave in their first days.

In order to find ways to get everything from your unloved work, you first need to figure out what your favorite work consists of.

For two years now I have been teaching career coaching to people from different countries, where I tell you how to find the perfect job and help others find it, so I have something to share.

An ideal job consists of the following components:

• You love to do it.
• You can do it.
• You can get paid for it.

When all three areas intersect, a person has an ideal career.

I propose to take a short test and understand what is happening in your career.

You need to put a number from 1 to 10 in front of each question, where 10 means that you completely agree with the expression, and 1 means completely disagree.

Now add up the scores in each section (professionalism, love, income).

Ideal careerlooks like that: 100–100–100.

A typical career for the average person is 60-60-60.

This is where you will understand exactly where your problem is in your career and how you can fix this problem.

In my training, I teach how to look for a job in life, how to transform a career and how to earn more.

You can read about more earnings in my article "7 ways to get a raise in wages."

And in this article I want to tell you how to find your zest in work. This will help boost your love of work scores a bit.

Remember the movie "Office Romance". For all the heroes, life revolved around the hated work, but everyone found something of their own in it: someone was hunting for fashionable clothes, someone was secretly in love with the deputy director, someone was an active collector of money for birthdays and funerals. And in front of us is an office where all people live a full life, smile, communicate and even be quite happy.

I believe that each of you is able to find something of your own in your unloved work and get everything from it. And here are some of the options that I've come across:

1. Working for a girl is an opportunity "Walk" your new outfit … For girls, new outfits are like air. Without them, they go out. But any new outfit needs to be worn somewhere else. There should be admiring glances, compliments or even gossip from envious people and enemies. And the office is the best place where all this can happen.
2. Love affair at work … Finding a good husband or wife is very difficult now. And if you don't have a job, then you can only look in bars and discos. Under a glass of Jack Daniels whiskey, you can find far from the best specimen. But the office is a completely different matter. First, the person is immediately visible. Secondly, you can always find out how much he earns. Thirdly, an office romance always adds exotic and extreme to a relationship. Every corporate event turns into a scene from a James Bond movie. I want to be together, but you need to keep secrecy.
3. If there is already a second half, then the next item is friend … Having a friend at work is generally one of the greatest successes. Where else can you spend time with a friend all day long without being reprimanded by your wife? Here you can go for smoke breaks, talk about life, and visit the nearest car dealerships or equipment stores during lunch.
4. Run away from home from the child. Of course, being a parent of a one year old child is wonderful. Fine for about 30 to 60 minutes a day. Well, if dad is automatically lucky in this regard, then mom is no longer so. And work is a great way to arrange a small leave from a child … As a result, the child gets a happy mother. A satisfied mother receives leave from her child. And a contented dad gets a contented wife.
5. Social benefits. Sometimes the set of benefits is so great that life without them is no longer possible: a company car, insurance for the whole family, free meals, tea, coffee, cookies in the office, preferential vacations, preferential prices for company products, joint trips, corporate events, season tickets to sports clubs. Almost communism.

6. Schedule … If you are tired of work, you can get joy out of life by strictly observing the work schedule. After all, usually like, you come at 9 o'clock, leave at 19, 20, 21, have lunch at your desk and generally do not see the white light.

   

   And according to the law, you come at 9, every hour you have short breaks, lunch is 60 minutes and go home at 18. If you follow at least half of these norms, you will feel great relief.

7. If you are tired of work, start changing your environment. Firstly, very often you can ask for better working conditions, better office or table layout. Secondly, you can ask for a more comfortable and beautiful table, an orthopedic chair, a more powerful laptop, a working mobile phone. You can ask to put a coffee maker, a humidifier, a radio tape recorder, a vase with a flower in the office. The environment has changed - and it became more fun to work. Also buy yourself a cool notebook, pen and all your stationery.
8. Organize something … You can organize a corporate party, a trip to another city, a go-kart competition or paintball. You can encourage everyone to go to a pub or bowling alley.
9. Go on vacation for all the days you haven't used before. By law, all days of unused vacation do not burn out, but accumulate. I have met people who, after working for a company for 5-10 years, have 100 to 200 days of unused leave. Set yourself a goal take twice as much vacation per yearthan given to you by law - 48 days. This is 12 days every quarter. Or try going on vacation for a month.
10. Almost every company has a training budget. Find yourself interesting training and ask the company to pay you to participate in it. Better training in another city or another country to travel by train and live in a hotel. A great way to reboot your brain.
11. Business trips … Ask to send you on a business trip. Usually they do not like to go there, but you choose a city that you have never been to, and feel free to go - a great tour. In summer, it is great to go on business trips to the south coast.
12. Mentoring … Guinea pigs are always fun to have. Talk to your boss and express your desire to mentor new hires. Firstly, it will allow you to legally reduce the workload of your main job. Second, you can legally chat with newbies, take smoke breaks more often, and linger longer at lunch under the pretext of "enhanced adaptation." Beginners will love you for it, your credibility will rise, and there is a chance to receive an award.
13. Additional vacation for a mother of two children up to 15 years old. Few people know that mothers of two children are entitled to an additional 10 days of leave, which does not accumulate. They need to be used for beloved children in addition to the main vacation.

14. Make a game out of work.

    

    

    Agree with your colleagues to bet $ 1 on all FIFA World Cup games. Arrange a tote, involve employees of other departments. You can also count who drank more cups of coffee or who drank more glasses of beer in a month at Friday get-togethers in a pub.

15. This is a real life example - going to work four days a week instead of five … There are just over 50 weeks a year. If you go to work four days a week instead of five all year, you only need 50 days a year. This may be a previously unused vacation or a 20% reduction in salary.
16. Become an in-house coach … More and more companies are starting to create corporate universities in which regular employees act as trainers. This, of course, is a decrease in the workload on the main job, often it is a chance to receive a fee for coaching days without prejudice to salary. And everyone is madly in love with coaches. Well, teaching other people, preparing for trainings, communicating live is a great pleasure. True, if you're not an introvert.
17. Moving to another city. The phrase "it is better to be the first guy in the village than the second in the city" works here. Very often, companies open new offices in other cities where they need “their own person”. Such an employee is often rented an apartment, paid for travel to his hometown and back, and added to his salary. well and work in a new city is a very interesting challenge.
18. Move to the main office … If you work on the periphery, then look for any way to move to the main office, where the level of salaries and further prospects are always higher.
19. Build a horizontal career … Tired of working in your department? Go to the next one. These are new and interesting challenges in an old environment. It will be much easier for you than for a newbie, but you will get a great experience and be a more valuable employee.
20. Participate in all competitions held by the company. Companies often conduct quite interesting contests with prizes. Figure out how to beat them and focus on that.
21. Donor days … If you really want to take two days, but there is no vacation time, then you can safely donate blood. On the day of donating blood, the employee is not put on absenteeism, in addition, he is given a coupon for one more paid day outside of work, he is fed and given a small amount of money.
22. Register as a speaker at the conference, tell us about your experience … If you are skilled in your business and you have something to tell about, conferences are a real chance to get new emotions, new acquaintances and a free lunch.:)

23. Become a hero … Find a way to get the whole office talking about you. You can work 24 hours on a new project without leaving home, or save a colleague from a car flying by. Or, for example, donate one salary (be sure to call all colleagues to such an action) to children from the nearest orphanage.

    

24. Give an interview for an internal corporate magazine. Let everyone know about you. Just write to the author that you have something to tell about, and answer all his questions. Be sure to ask for a professional photo session, do not give a photo from your archive.
25. Arrange unusual birthday … Surely, at your birthday party, like millions of other people, it is customary to order pizza, eat cakes and drink wine with cognac. Surprise your colleagues - buy 20 different varieties of cheese, 100 grams each, and five bottles of wine from a little-known country with a very complicated grape variety name. Believe me, your birthday will be discussed by everyone. And also, instead of the traditional drinking bout, you can bring a coffee machine with expensive coffee (you can even bring it with Kopi Luwak - this is coffee collected from the poop of animals living on a small lake, as in the movie Until I played in the box) and a box of muffins with seven different tastes. Feed everyone in the morning.
26. Bring yours to work culinary masterpieces … If you love cooking, start bringing your own pies, croissants and tarts to work. A whole day of grateful reviews is provided for you. If you love flowers, start looking after all the flowers in the office. Let everyone see the results of your labors.
27. It's the same with other hobbies. Do you like drawing up horoscopes? Do you do Amway or Avon? Do you place orders on foreign websites for your husband and child? Do you knit socks? Bring everything to the masses … Share with your colleagues, and you will get a lot of positive emotions, gratitude and new ideas.
28. Allocate yourself 30 minutes a day to read something interesting on the Internet. Just don't waste this time on social media.
29. Delegate whatever you don't like. If you don't have subordinates, ask your boss to redistribute responsibilities so that you only have those that are really interesting to you. Can not? Ask for free interns. They will happily do any work for the experience, and you will get extra hands.
30. Figure out what your boss likes about the job and focus on that. If a beautiful presentation about the work of the department is most important to your boss, spend all the time preparing it. If a positive image of your department within the company is important to him, spend a lot of time with colleagues from other departments and build this image, albeit to the detriment of other tasks.

Of course, many will say that if you do not like your job, then you need to leave it, but this is a topic for a completely different article.

What advice can you give to people who do not like their job, but for various reasons they cannot leave it?