Being At Work

Frustration

Frustration reigns! Well over a week ago, when I began my blog I expected that I would add to it almost every day. Now, here I am with no additional postings and annoyed with myself.

How many times have you had good intentions and then found that life takes over and time disappears. And you don’t get done what you had planned. While posting to a blog is not life changing, staying in a job that doesn’t work, that is not fulfilling and brings no joy, is. How many times have I worked with people who hate their jobs and want a change, yet can’t seem to find the time or motivation to get it done?

I am reminded of this and know that “beating myself up” serves no purpose. All I can do is make a commitment to do better. I need to take a look at my priorities and if they are inline, then it must mean my blog is not that important. I will have to ponder this.

A lot of unhappy people

I love to find articles, studies, stories, etc. that reinforce my position.   Don’t we all?  Did you hear about The Conference Board’s February 2005 report entitled, “Take This Job and . . .”?  They found that in the last 10 years American who say they are satisfied with their job has slipped almost 10% to 50% and only 14% who say they are very satisfied.  That means that there are a lot of unhappy people out there.  What was even more disturbing was that the largest decline in overall job satisfaction occurred among workers 35-44.  This is scary news, both for unhappy individuals who will spend about a third of their life at work and for employers who have to contend with all that discontent.  I will have more to say about these findings.