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How to Creatively Un-Hate Your Job
How To Creatively Un-Hate Your Job: Is it possible to avoid the dread? Easier for some not so easy for others. Why do you have a job in the first place? Take this question seriously and write down all the reasons you have a job. Then write down all the reasons you have particular job. Much will be revealed to you when you go through this eye opening exercise. When you do, you’ll be surprised. Set it aside and come back to it a week later and reread it. You will most likely want to make some adjustments, which will make it even more revealing.
After you’ve completed the exercise, what if you discover that you truly hate your job. Well it would be easy for me to say, quit and move on! But more often than not, that’s not always practical or easy. Most every job puts you in contact with other people, whether they be fellow employees or people you engage with on the telephone. Those cohorts that you work with can be wonderful to interact with day to day. Then of course there’s always going to be someone that gets on your nerves. One or more of those individual could drive you to the point where you want to quit.
Let’s talk about those individuals that are put in charge of you. Unfortunately, in many cases, they have their own issues. They act like demigods, with the notion of power, wielded freely and unjustly just because it makes them feel good. The number one…