A friend of mine, a nurse who works with the NHS in a ward that houses the elderly patients always moan about the heavy work load and the persistent lost of interest and challenge due unpredictable behavior of these patients.
I have always advised her to quit if she is increasingly finding it difficult to cope. She quite agree with me but her problem is how to cope without a job. She is just there to pay her bills, no motivation,no passion for her job anymore.The mention of her job makes her sick.
Hmm, good thinking, but a better thinking would have been to think out of the box here and ask herself, which department will I be more comfortable to put up with, where can I feel a sense of belonging, better pay, more appreciated, and perhaps better challenges?.
Last month, she had a dinner with me, and I asked her, how about a reversed duty?, she said what!I repeated, how about working with little kids this time around, and She said,"you know what" I said what,"it has never occured to me you know", she said, gazing into the roof of the pub like a lost star.
To make the matter worst, she has promised herself never to further her education as a nurse either as a general nurse or any other specialised nursing areas.
The determination to move away from her frustration, an extra challenge into achieving her escape will not be too big but was never an option for her.
Last night, she called me to break the all important news"I have just passed my midwifery exams"she said, alright that is a good news to me and I believe she is ready now for a change.
A lot of us are faced with frustration with our jobs and believe that there was little or nothing we could do about it.We resign to our fate too quickly, and as days past by, our productivity decrease and decrease, before we know it we became counter -productive and redundancy door draws so close to us.
A typical way out of this situation and I believe a brave one is to think of other jobs, in and within our current jobs that can offer better working over all conditions.
This may not be far from your case, perhaps as a retailer's shop floor assistant for years, a little extra challenge to attend an in-house management training can change a lot in your life, a new drive and increased productivity.
There is always a possibility of escape from your job frustration and exploring other avenues of change should be constant.There may be a price to pay but at the end of the day, there will be smiles on your face.
Think about that little extra challenge, if you are not sure about what to do then talk to the experts we can help you with a lot of ideas to put back smiles on your face.
Email me today and we will pick it up from there.Good luck.

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