44. in the search of growth...

Category: Career and Purpose

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​44. 

We love to hate our jobs and careers and yet, 
we refuse to change them. How come?

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We all have that one friend that keeps sending us memes and reels about the jobs we hate. Or maybe this one friend is us?

Humour is a good way to lighten up the darkness of a situation and while personally, I believe there is a lot of fun in sarcastic or funny approaches to what we can not change, sometimes we use these as relief to our pain.
Dark humor and jokes about work relieve stress, for sure. And we also need to look at how often we are sending them. Because here is the thing - no matter how much humour we throw at it - if we are not happy, the memes and reels will not change that.

So what is stopping us?

• Comfort in routine: It feels good to have predictability.
• We actually like it: There is a bit of stigma around enjoying work.
• Perceived risk: We are not sure if the future is actually better.
• Lack of confidence: We doubt if we have what it takes to reach higher.
  
  

Sometimes in these posts, I may come across as a big change advocate. However, like all of us, this is one of the areas that has been the hardest to embrace change in for me as well.
No matter how many times I have changed roles and how many coaching certificates I have gotten, change always feels deeply uncomfortable. And the bigger the change, the more I resisted it.

Well, they say that change is inevitable. We can only manage our response to it.
        Yes, and apart from the obvious changes…