Self Care When You Don’t Like Your Job

This is Part 40 in a series of articles about the “self.”

When your heart is not in the work you’re doing, it’s important to attend to your own self-hood.

You have to care about yourself even if you don’t care about your job. Especially if you don’t care about your job.

If you loved your job, you could use your non-work time to take care of yourself in other aspects of your life.

But often, work you don’t want to do has a schedule that doesn’t allow for that. Too often it is work that is non-permanent, or it’s temporary or part-time.

The hours are flexible for the employer but not for you. That means the rest of your life gets switched around, put on the back burner or forgotten about.

If you’re upset because of all this other bad things happen; your lose sleep, don’t eat properly, lose energy, lose ambition. and all that means you really DO need self-care.

Nothing is sustaining you. You are running on empty and you know it can’t last. When your health or will power gets depleted, you’ll have to re-evaluate how you’re going about doing things just to avoid a major medical or emotional crisis.

Or, you could start your self care sooner and avoid all that. You have to start making your self care changes now.

Self care isn’t just about having more self-discipline. It’s about considering many aspects of your life including your health, your stress levels, and your levels of fun, joy and inspiration.

It’s not so much about cracking down on yourself and vowing to do better, as it is allowing yourself to let go and do what you’re really motivated to do for yourself, not what you have to do because you’re told to. That is hard to do, especially if you are in a job you don’t like.

If you don’t like your job, join me at Self-Knowledge College and we’ll figure out what kind of job you should be in.

Getting that kind of job is the next step but let’s take the first step first.

Email me and we’ll talk.

frankdaley@rogers.com

Frank

Previous Posts

Part 1: Do you find yourself or create it? And why bother anyway?

Part 2: Searching for yourself? Flying blind? Need a new search party?

Part 3: Be yourself. Everybody else is taken!

Part 4: Self discovery without viagra.

Part 5: Selfish vs Selfless (in women)

Part 6: Selfish. Always wrong?