Answers to Your Work Dissatisfactions!

Are you truly sat­is­fied at work?  Why not?  What’s miss­ing from get­ting you becom­ing truly sat­is­fied at work?  You’re highly if not decently paid but you feel some­thing miss­ing.  You get to leave office on the dot but you just feel unhappy and mis­er­able get­ting through the office hours.  It’s like serv­ing a 8 hour prison term within the cubes.  Your boss entrusts you with new chal­leng­ing assign­ments but you do not seemed to like what’s given to you.  You found time wasted on han­dling human issues than really get­ting pro­duc­tive.  Have a sim­i­lar feeling?

There are var­i­ous rea­sons for being dis­sat­is­fied at work that you may not be even aware of.  Today, we are pre­sent­ing to you seven rea­sons why you are dis­sat­is­fied at work.

1. You are dis­sat­is­fied because you are under­paid.  You have a house and bills to pay off. The fam­ily needs to buy the basic neces­sity and the petrol’s expen­sive. We got the edu­ca­tion to worry next and the liv­ing stan­dard is not stop­ping its gear of rais­ing its price… You name it.

Before we even move a lit­tle bit fur­ther, are you REALLY under­paid?  Are you mov­ing to a dif­fer­ent liv­ing stan­dard that requires addi­tional cash?  Make a com­par­i­son with your col­leagues and the mar­ket.  Make an annual cal­cu­la­tion.  Is there really a big dif­fer­ence from what your col­leagues or the gen­eral mar­ket is get­ting?  You’ll feel bet­ter this way.  Ok, fine if you do not feel any slightly bet­ter with the com­par­i­son, our advice is to leave the com­pany that can offer you a higher income.  Or you can find other alter­na­tive sources of income.

2. You are dis­sat­is­fied because you are deeply engaged in man­age­ment pol­i­tics.  You are tired and mis­er­able with han­dling the needs and demands of your man­age­ment.  The man­age­ment are to be treated like kings and you hated it.  You do not respect them in any­way and you feel its mean­ing­less work­ing in the com­pany as there is no real out­put deliv­ered.  You are just busy han­dling the man­age­ment that you are not really doing things that are sup­posed to be done.

Our advice, take things easy, we can­not avoid pol­i­tics in the work place.  You can choose to leave.  If you can’t, you can choose not to be affected by the man­age­ment and have a per­sonal opin­ion.  Of course, you still have to man­age them in some way or another but def­i­nitely be affected by their thoughts.

3. You are dis­sat­is­fied because you are work­ing on things that are out of your expected job scope.  This is so preva­lent that you do not even know until you start feel­ing the unhap­pi­ness in you.  Some­times, there’s a need to do addi­tional things that is out of your job scope.  Now do a check of your­self.  What are the things that you like to do?  Do you like to the addi­tional things being assigned to you?  Do you have an alter­na­tive choice not to work on the addi­tional things?  Like say­ing “No” to del­e­ga­tion?  Think from another angle, will you get ben­e­fit from doing the addi­tional things?

4. You are dis­sat­is­fied because you are always work­ing over­time.  You have to work long hours daily… It’s a job that you do not really like.  Of course, you would not feel this way if you are truly pas­sion­ate about your job.  Pas­sion pre­cedes over­time and momen­tary rewards.  If you feel that over­times should be com­pen­sated accord­ingly with the hours spent but it doesn’t work this way for you, you should con­sider the finan­cial and sales sec­tor then.  If you are in IT and sup­port line, then its tough luck as there is no direct reward for stay­ing late to main­tain the servers.  No doubt with­out pas­sion and rewards, your sat­is­fac­tion drops grad­u­ally overtime.

Our advice is to get some life.  Get a new job that gives you more flex­i­bil­ity in work­ing hours.  Do not let work con­sumed UNLESS you really love it.

5. You are dis­sat­is­fied because your boss is unap­pre­cia­tive of you.  This is a com­mon issue.  The boss does not appre­ci­ate your effort.  What’s worst is after proper deliv­ery of qual­ity work, you boss just acknowl­edges and con­tin­ued to assign you new tasks… We can only say your boss is the prob­lem­atic one…

Our advice is to look for some­thing else­where that you can find appre­ci­a­tion from. You can’t change your boss until the day every­one leaves him.  If you do not have a greener pas­ture yet, or you have cho­sen to stay on with him, you can work on two things while try­ing to get one.

First, you should not expect appre­ci­a­tion from him.  This will keep your expec­ta­tions low thus no dis­ap­point­ment.  Sec­ondly, it may be a prob­lem of mis­aligned expec­ta­tion between you and your boss.  You do not meet what he REALLY wants (You factor).  There­fore, observe and under­stand him, and you may find some­thing that he truly wants.  Once he has it, exam­ple an impor­tant strate­gic piece of work deliv­ered, he will show his appre­ci­a­tion for you.  Of course, if the boss is truly a unap­pre­cia­tive per­son, you can turn back to our ini­tial solu­tion, that is to leave for a greener pasture…

6. You are dis­sat­is­fied because you are stressed up with the com­pe­ti­tion in your work­place.  You col­leagues are capa­ble and always pro­gres­sive.  But you seemed to be at the same posi­tion all the time (you’ll never move).  You get vic­timised either being “back-stabbed” through their pro­gres­sion or being the “last in the class”.  Now, do not be pes­simistic with other’s peo­ple pro­gres­sion.  Look within your­self and find out what is impor­tant to you.  Pro­gres­sion may be their most impor­tant on hand BUT NOT FOR YOU.  On the bright side, the com­pe­ti­tion allows you to grow as well, right?  Which means it keeps you afloat of your skill sets when in times of cri­sis like the recent reces­sion, you have what it takes to go out.

7. You are dis­sat­is­fied because you are not climb­ing the cor­po­rate lad­der.  You feel that you are “there” already how­ever, you always not in line in the pro­mo­tion list.  What’s going?  Let’s do a self-check again (and counter checks with col­leagues).  Are you really “there” yet?  Have you make a com­par­i­son of what the pro­moted col­leagues to find out what you are miss­ing?  Are you meet­ing your bosses’ expec­ta­tion (You fac­tor)?  Have you spo­ken to him about pro­mo­tion before?  Do not wait for the golden bag of coins to drop before you.  Golden rule, you may not under­stand the man­age­ment and the man­age­ment may not under­stand you.

What do you think?  Do they answer some of your resent­ment at work? Are there other rea­sons you find dis­sat­is­fied with?  Share with us. 

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