I hope you are all well, happy, healthy and crazy.
I feel so good because today is my third day of my "new" life.
I quit my job and here is the reason why.
I am not going to go into details about my previous job because I feel like it is not important.
The truth is that no matter what job you do, if at some point of your life you find it tiring, demotivating, health-damaging, etc., you might be able to relate to this.
I have been in my previous job for about one year and a half and even though it might not seem like a long time, it was definitely a good time to learn about life, other people and myself. So what did I learn?
🔺 If you are working with many people, you probably won't become friends with everyone.
This is absolutely ok as long as you are respected and treated well. To work in one place with many people, some of them arrogant, gossipy, rude or disrespectful, might be very difficult. If you are not resilient to this kind of behaviour, it may crush you or disgust you. That's what happened to me. I hate dishonesty, fakeness, disrespect and even though I am always trying to accept other people, let them live and do my own business, sometimes it was just not possible. I felt like they were sucking my precious energy out of me and I used to come home totally drained. I actually became very unsociable during my employment because I was so fed up with the people around me that all I wanted to do was just to go home and be with my animals and family.
🔺 If you feel abnormally tired and your body is suffering it might be a sign that this is not the right job for you.
Again, it is not unusual to feel tired sometimes. The level of tiredness that I developed during my employment was immense. Not sleeping at night because of all the things I had to do the following day were running in my head; going to sleep late because I spent most of my day in job and I had no time for my hobbies until the evening/late night; the actual work activities, lacking of any creativity, meaning, life; all of those things made me so tired that I had to compensate it with food. And what's the fastest source of energy? Sugar! I ate so much sugar that I actually put on 5 kg. My body was not happy. From sitting all day I developed intestinal problems and back pains.
🔺 If you don't enjoy Sundays because you keep thinking about going to job next day, it probably means that you are unhappy.
I feel like every Sunday was like a little Monday for me since I was already in the mode of going to job the next day. This is such a common problem and so many people feel the same way. Some might object that this is absolutely natural since your days off are over, but I think that once you feel this way, you are not happy and passionate about what you do and you should change it. We spend a very huge part of our life working. Do you really want to spend it on something that makes you sad when you only think about going to work the next day?
Don't get me wrong, we all need to make money for living and sometimes we need to take jobs that are not the dream ones. I have been in this kind of situation where I felt like I had no other option than to stay where I was and earn money. However, there is a very important thing to remember and that is - you ALWAYS have a choice. Even if it feels like you don't, once you believe in yourself and you believe in life, you always have a choice and you can change your conditions.
I also see many people accepting their work struggles just in order to make more and more money. Money doesn't bring you happiness. You might buy houses, cars or travel on vacation, but that is just temporary. So tell me, isn't it better to do something that you enjoy, despite how much money it brings to you, and feel happy everyday instead of just being temporarily happy while on vacation or shopping?
And one little life advice from me - If you follow your passion and do something that makes you truly happy, the money that you desire will come anyway.
Nobody has a right to treat you as you are less than he/she is. It doesn't matter if it is your colleague, your boss or somebody in your family. You don't deserve this and you should let them know. So many people feel like they can hurt others being in a superior position. That is absolutely not true because no matter the money, status, education or physical features, we are all the same and we deserve respect as anyone else. So please do me a favour, step up for yourself and let others know that they cannot mess with you.
🔺 If your company's main interest is money, regardless the employees, you may expect some very crazy things.
We live in a society where money is the driving power. Many big companies earn a huge amount of money yet they are paying their employees very little. I have witnessed some pretty crazy dismissals and employees shifting based on the bosses' decisions without regard to the employees' situation or even work performance. People work their guts out only to learn that at the end they are replaceable. If you find yourself in this kind of situation, please know that this usually has a very little to do with your work performance or your effort. Money is the driving power and for the big bosses you are just a little sheep in a herd.
So those are the things that I have learned in the previous two years or so.
Please do not take this as a general complain about working for any type of employer or company. I know that there are jobs that offer really good conditions for the employees and people feel happy and fulfilled to work there. I can only wish you to find this kind of job because, as I already said, you deserve the best and you can achieve it.
I decided to live my life happily, healthily, respect myself and respect others, surround myself with people that appreciate me and support me and follow my passion and my heart. I decided to live a life I do not need to take a vacation from.
I hope that my post will help at least one of you with the right decision. I wished I had read an article like that a few months ago to save myself some really unpleasant times. However, at the end, everything is an experience and you can only grow stronger. :-)
Please share your stories with me in the comments.
Stay happy, stay healthy, stay yourself!
Julie xoxo
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