I Hate My Job! How to Survive Your Workday While You Look for a New Job
As you drive to work you wonder, “How am I going to get through today?”
You hate your job but right now it’s the only thing standing between you and the homeless shelter downtown.
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You park your car, turn off the ignition and you begin to feel the zest for life being slowly drained from your inner being. Like bathwater after you pull the plug from the drain.
Sound familiar?
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You did all the right things.
You went to school, got a job with a good company, and set yourself on a career path your parents would be proud of.
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Or maybe you just took the first job you could find because those student loans were coming due.
Either way, you took a job and now you hate it.
You wonder how this happened. How did you end up doing something every day that sucks the zest for life out of you?
The problem is you don’t know what to do. You don’t know what else you want to do. Even if you did know, you don’t know how to get there.
The good news is there is hope.
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There is an epidemic that has plagued our land for far too long. It’s a silent killer and the majority don’t realize it’s curable. The culprit?
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Doing non-creative work you don’t enjoy.
I ordered lunch the other day and one of the servers preparing my chicken sandwich muttered under his breath, “I guess this is what I get for being a history major.”
He went on to explain his frustration with his job and how he was dying to do something different and more creative.
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The best way to open this post would be to have a meaningful story about how my ebook 5 Essential Steps to Landing Your Dream Job was inspired by the night I couldn’t sleep so I watched the J.K. Rowling episode on the Biography channel when she goes back to the apartment where she lived pre Harry Potter and breaks down in tears as she ponders how far she has come. 
I stayed up all night, wrote my manifesto then looked around my house and thought, “I wonder how my sunshine yellow walls will look on the Biography channel someday?” However, I’m afraid I don’t have a meaningful story like that to draw you in.
Sure, I went through a fairly dramatic and traumatic career change, sold my house, moved in with my in-laws, started a business, dissolved a business, quit three jobs in one year and eventually found my way again.
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Last week I bought a new pair of shoes. I bought the same brand of shoes three years ago and I loved them so I was excited to get a new pair.
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Everything was going well on the first day I wore them. A little stiff here, breaking them in there, the usual with new shoes. However, at some point during the day I noticed some significant discomfort on the top part of my foot. I just chalked it up to the break in period of new shoes so I did’t bother to do anything about it. However, it started to really hurt and it was becoming a distraction. Then it hit me. I don’t have to suffer like this. I have the power and the ability to untie my shoe, readjust the fit, and keep moving. Freedom! I felt like William Wallace in a pair of Keens.
This led me to start thinking about how this can often happen in our careers. Sometimes we needlessly tolerate pain in our careers when we have the ability to change our situation. But how do you know when enough is enough? Here are some indications it might be time to start making a change in your career:
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