How to love your job: 5 simple rules

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

Everyone wants to go to their dream job, but few people succeed. Even if at first you like the work, soon it still turns into a routine, something starts to not suit you. How to love what you do, especially when you don't like it? There are simple ways to improve your attitude towards your unloved work.

A responsibility

Remember, only you are responsible for the results of your activity. No one will do your job for you, either better or worse, because only you are now in this position and this work is your direct responsibility.

Take on more responsibility: expand the field of activity, increase the scope of tasks, make adjustments to the workflow, and then any activity will be transformed, you will understand that a lot depends on you and everything is not in vain.

Happiness is when you go to work with pleasure in the morning and return home with pleasure in the evening.

Very few people are responsible for their work, whatever it may be: janitor, doctor, salesman, manager, programmer. Take your tasks seriously and your activities will make sense.

Improving the world

Imagine that your work is not being wasted: it makes the world a little better, you help people and make your own small contribution to the end result or product of the company.

For example, a salesperson helps people buy good goods, a plumber fixes leaks and restores communications, a bus driver delivers thousands of tired people to the right places, a janitor makes the premises clean, and you don't even have to talk about doctors, teachers, firefighters. You cannot see only the financial component in your work: this does not motivate you to good results.

Now many people suffer from the pointlessness of their activities, despite good earnings, because they put money at the forefront, and not what they do and what they do.

Look around you: how you can help colleagues, your leader, what to improve without demanding anything in return. Generate positive impulses and channel them into the work environment, bring creativity to boring everyday life and monotonous activities.

Development of special skills

In each specialty, you can acquire skills that will definitely come in handy in your life and in building your future career. Make the most of your position, do not think that you will not need it. All experience is important, whatever it may be.

You will be surprised how much rewarding experience you can gain while in a regular sales position: interacting with people, building dialogues, marketing strategy, window dressing. This is pure practice. And such advantages can be found in any profession. And the sooner you understand this, the better you will work.

Make it a goal for yourself to have all the professional skills you need to do your job while you do it.

More than once, skills from past professions have come in handy: electrical installation, fiber optic technologies, development and implementation of electronic document management, implementation of new turnkey technical solutions, construction of computer networks.

Optimization of activities

Try to bring something fresh to your daily routine, optimize processes, reduce task completion times, introduce something new into the organization's documents, draw up a department development plan, and increase the efficiency of your regular activities.

You can think of a bunch of little additions to the work that will improve it. You will receive inner satisfaction, and also learn to transform the usual process, but the main thing is that the management will definitely notice you and offer you to tackle more important and interesting tasks.

It's like gamification: set yourself sub-problems and solve them. Become better than yourself.

Philosophical approach

Whatever you do in any period of your life, do it conscientiously and with full dedication, because you may not have another job. Remember that some part of the world's population does not have the opportunity to choose their occupation at all: someone is a fisherman on the island all his life, someone is a miner in a single mine, someone is a road builder in the desert, someone is just a garbage collector in a huge market, and some have no work at all.

Remember the important thing: a big salary does not motivate for a long time. Sooner or later, it will seem small and ordinary again, and you will become sad again.

Yes, of course, money is important: it allows you to live the life you want, but do not forget about self-realization.

Most people when asked "Why do you work?" answer: "Because of the money." And that is why they are unhappy at work: they do not always want to work, climb the career ladder, are distracted from completing tasks, talk a lot, procrastinate. They do not want to look for new interests and heights in their activities, but are used to just going to work.