Are you trading your hours for dollars and feel that you are getting nowhere fast? 

Do you even like what it is that you do that pay the bills? I’ve asked a lot of people over the last few months if they like what they do and I can count on one hand how many of them like, not love mind you, but like the jobs they are currently employed to do.

This led me to ask them “Why do you spend your precious time working a job you don’t like?” This is some of their responses:

• Better the devil you know
• I’ve done this all my life
• No idea if I could do anything else
• I don’t have far to travel
• I could walk to work if I wanted to
• It pays good money
• I can’t afford a drop in wage
• I don’t have any other skills
• I’m too old to learn new things
• I’m due for retirement soon
• l’m too close to long service
• I don’t want to start at the bottom
• It’s taken me a long time to get to where I am

Do these excuses sound familiar….? I must admit I stayed in a previous job because of one of these excuses, but it didn’t take long before I realised that by doing so was detrimental to my health and happiness. 

Let’s look for a moment at the negative side of staying stuck in a dead end job that you don’t like.  Over time you may start to notice the following:

• bullying
• depression
• lack of self esteem
• lack of work ethics
• lack of co-operation
• lack of self confidence
• lack of pride in your work
• Increased alcohol and/or drug use
• Increased arguments with partner and peers

There are lots more but do you see that by being unhappy in where you work or what you do, that over time it will have a detrimental effect on your health.

By spending a few hours a week you could invest in learning new skills that would then give you the opportunity to choose another line of work or lifestyle.  At the very least you will become aware that there is another option. 

I appreciate that there are generally two types of people:

The people that do. These positive people want to improve themselves and their lifestyle they will have an open mind and will see the possibilities of learning new skills. Most of these people will follow through once they have learned these new skills.

The people that don’t. These people are generally negative and have a limited view of life.  They are the people who will set about to prove you right, you know who I mean, the people who say things like:

• You can’t do that
• That won’t work
• You will never amount to anything

These people are happy to experience life as they know it and that is ok, but don’t let them bring you down.

If you get nothing else out of this, please just accept that there is always a choice, another option, another way of doing things.  Life is never meant to be simple, but it doesn’t have to be hard.

Vicki Williams

Your Destiny Unfolds