6 Ways To Be happy In Your Job
So you have been a hard working employee. You have been recognized several times for excellence in your job. But now you are at a point where your fire for the job needs rekindling. You feel unappreciated. You feel underpaid, and you also feel sidelined when it comes to promotions. Today we are discussing?6 ways to be happy in your job.?The idea is to encourage you not to work for a promotion.
No matter how bright a fire burns and how much light it gives to it’s surrounding, a time comes when it loses the flame and almost dies, until someone comes to rekindle it and gets rid of all the smoke. I hope this post helps to rekindle the fire in you.
Now, it is very normal lose the zeal for your job. Everyone goes through that phase, especially if you have held the same position for a long time. No one is immune to this feeling. It eventually catches up with us. But as long as you are still in need of that job, you need to find ways to be happy in your job. Here are the 6 ways to be happy in your job.
Accept your position
The first tip on being happy in your job is to first accept your current position. Realize that you were not hired for your boss’ position or any other position you admire. You were hired for your current position. You were happy to sign the contract. Therefore, embrace and accept everything that does or does not come with your position.
The mistake we make, which also depresses us and diminishes the fire for our jobs, is to look into the benefits of another person’s job. “You can’t understand me boss because you get more money than me” or “You are always early for work because of the company car, therefore you cannot compare with us who do not have that benefit.”
Just accept your position. Do the work of your position to the best of your ability. This will attract good things to you.
Work on your finances
The promise and hope of a bigger salary is one of the major reasons why people choose to work and fight for a promotion at work. For some reason they feel underpaid and blame their financial problems on their current salary. If you want to be happy at work, you better work on your finances.
It is true that a promotion at work comes with an improved salary but earning more money does not guarantee financial freedom. If anything, it might multiply your problems. Work on planning your finances. Your new salary might be enough to solve your financial problems but your old mind comes back to whisper that you now earn enough to borrow more money.
Do not allow your excited mind to spend money before it hits your account. Budget from your net salary and not from your gross salary (you’d think people know). Gather courage to renegotiate payment plans with your creditors. Grab the Bull by the horn and handle your problems one debt at a time. You will not have to wait for a promotion to be happy in your job.
Improve yourself
The world is constantly improving ways of doing things. As organisations evolve, you do not want to be declared redundant. You need to improve yourself to remain relevant and eligible for a promotion. Improve yourself based on the current role, and that for which you aspire.
Your knowledge and skills may become obsolete. Take up courses and attend workshops that expose you to latest practices in your field. Sales is no longer just greeting customers and having a clean environment. You may need copywriting and marketing skills to make customers choose you over your competition. The same goes with managing a team today. The focus is now on inspiring people to to do their jobs. This might need you to go through ethics and emotional intelligence training. Old tyrannical ways of managing people are now frowned upon these days.
Improving yourself in your current role helps you to be effective, productive and efficient. It also keeps you from activities that lead to loss of revenue through reputational damage or litigation.
Forward improvement
After improving yourself in the current position, you now need to improve yourself based on the next position. You want to be found ready for promotion when an opportunity presents itself. Upgrade your academic qualifications. Learn what your boss does. Study the job description for your next position, identify what you know and what you need to learn. Ask your boss or the current occupant of your next position to teach you the things you do not know. This makes you ready for a promotion, but also gives you an opportunity to act in the position whenever there is a gap.
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Focus on your job
It is possible that you feel unappreciated and underpaid because you are focusing too much on doing jobs you were not hired for. Prolonged training and practicals stops being training and becomes a job. Your training and progress may impress your bosses but do not let them dump or abdicate their duties on you. Abdicated duties create pressure on you to deliver both on your duties and those of your boss.
There is nothing wrong with training but you need to realize that you are paid and measured based on your current job. Your performance evaluation will not be based on your boss’ tasks that were dumped on you. Free yourself from overwhelming duties that are not part of your job description.
Finish your training, get back and focus on your own job. This gives you a certain feeling of freedom that you never thought you had lost.
Reduce your job into a concept
Sometimes our fire and passion for our jobs die because we feel that our jobs are too complex to do. This in turn makes us feel overwhelmed and fail to achieve anything. This is a terrible feeling to have but you can overcome it by simplifying your job into a simple concept. Breaking a complex task into a simple concept makes it exciting and possible to accomplish.
Sales is one of those jobs that easily becomes boring. To excite my 15-member team into meeting targets, I came up with a “house concept” where I told the team that we were building and improving customer houses. Each member and their department was to contribute towards every customer’s house. I would then ask questions like “how many houses have you built today, from the 150 customers we had?” In response, a sales person would say, ”3 normal houses. My lockset department contributed 7 locksets to each of the seven doors found in each house. I’ve sold 21 mortice locks in total.”
I would also tell them that the department is their own store which they had to keep in business by ensuring that it remains competitive and profitable. My role was now to only support with orders, pricing, marketing and merchandising strategies.
This improved sales with an excited team that was keen to give feedback on how many homes they had improved with laundry baskets, Kitchen appliances, e.t.c.
Find a hobby
You love your job because it gives you a sense of fulfillment, satisfaction and purpose. But fulfillment and satisfaction is not just found in a job. You can also find them in the works of your hands or creativity. That is why you need to find yourself a hobby.
Everyone is good at something. That thing is your talent/gift. Failure to allocate time for your natural gifts costs you opportunities to earn a decent extra income. Talents are able to sustain themselves no matter how you begin – big or small. Engage with your talent today and see how fulfilled you will be.
Final thoughts
Being too focused on a promotion which is not coming turns you into a disgruntled employee. If too desperate, you might turn out to be someone who wishes bad on others so that you get promoted. Making a promotion at work as the ultimate goal might make you look at innocent people as threats that need elimination.
Remember that each level you attain is meant to help you solve some issues in your life. Look at the bad habits you had before you moved to your current role. Is it gossip? Is it failure to protect confidential information? Is it being deep in dept?
You cannot move to the next level with the same problems you had when moving to your current position. Life has a way of enforcing this belief. Sort out whatever you have to sort out in your current role. Your problems can never co-exist with the privileges that come with the next level. For example, you cannot move to the next level with the same financial problems you had when moving to your current level. You will be a risk to the company.
Work on your issues today. You will be looked at for recognition and promotion.
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