Are You Stuck Up In A Wrong Job

You can be happy in a company or in unrelated field different from your background but the situation is not good if the profile you have is not the one you like. I have identified this as second reason in my post “Are You Not Happy With Your Job – What Is Your Reason” as a follow-up to the first one “Does Your Dream Job Still Eludes You” because of many reasons. I wanted to segregate it from first one because of the challenge involved in writing about it. When you are working in a certain Profile you have to essentially work on it for whole day. No matter how much one can convince you but if you don’t like the profile than essentially you don’t like it all. Period. But before even we start to talk on it I hope that you might have worked on small exercise given on the main post “Are You Not Happy With Your Job – What Is Your Reason”. It is very essential to segregate the problem and look for the main reason. If you are working on something which is not problem area than the whole effort goes into the drain. Let us analyze some of the reasons as to why you do not like your Job Profile 1) The Job Profile involves work which is very monotonous. 2) No challenge at all. You live a routine life 3) You are made to do something which you feel is not as per your standards. 4) You are stuck in something which is not as per your background 5) The job is so easy that you don’t feel like doing it. 6) The job is so hectic that you can’t cope up with it. 7) You don’t like the work which you have been asked to do. 8 ) You are not able to put your heart and soul into the job 9) You don’t know what to do because you know nothing about the job. 10) You just hate that kind of work. wrong job The main point which gets highlighted here is that you don’t want to do present job as neither you are ready for it nor you are able to do justice with it. Most of the people get trapped in such situations because of various reasons such as 1) You need to run family business 2) You need money 3) You want some experience 4) You don’t have a job and you had to do something 5) Forced into it due to family pressure 6) Have responsibilities and cannot call it a quits. The truth is that this happens with a lot of people. Yes with a lot of people. If this is happening with you than 1) Be calm and relaxed 2) You are not only one person in this world who has been made to suffer. Many people are suffering more than you. 3) Things has to change but it takes time 4) You need to be clear what you want and should try harder for it. Essentially you need to plan it out. The first important step is that no matter what happens don’t leave your job till the time the situation is much worse than you can think off. Remember it is easy to get a Job with Job in hand than to be at home with no job. Try to expand your network. Do some course or self study related to your target Job. Important thing is that you need to show patience and have to wait for an opportunity. Keep applying for new positions. If you are serious about it you will get it sooner or later. This is the best thing one can do in such situations. Leaving a Job is no solution. You are lucky than those people who do not even have single job. Remember Tough problems don’t last but tough people do last forever. Finally, A word of caution when you get a new job- Don’t say anything bad or give bad feedback to your current employer. Complete No No. I will write more about it later. Good Things in Life take time to come but they are never far. I understand the pain if you are stuck in such situation. The fact is that I have experienced this situation myself at the start of my career. However that experience still helps me a lot and has made me mature enough to value the my current Job.