Your Working Life So Far

byMichaelStan1

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3 years ago

How Good Is Your Memory?

Do you recall when you landed your first job after leaving school, college, or university? Or perhaps you never completed your formal education? Whichever category you fall into, there’s a good chance that you will never forget the day that someone offered you employment. Your reaction may have been anything between elation and total fright. But you were on your way!

In the intervening years, a few things may well have happened. Do any of the following sound familiar?

• You have become disillusioned with the company and are thinking of leaving their employ.
• You have stayed with them just for the sake of having a job and regular income. (If that sounds like you, then you are being untrue to them and yourself).
• You actually hate going to work and find more reasons every day as to why you don’t like the place.
• You started on a career path that looked exciting but actually isn’t.
• Someone else is being promoted above you even though you think they are useless.
• You are about to be made redundant.
• You haven’t had a salary rise for years.
• You are starting a family (or maybe you already have) and have to give up your career.
• The company is downsizing and can only offer you reduced hours.

These are but a few of the situations that people all over the world have either found themselves in or are currently experiencing. And unless you have a very tight contract of employment, more and more companies are finding ways to “let you go” without having to pay you redundancy. And although it’s hard to believe, they will do everything in their power to make it look as if you’re the guilty party.

• They may suddenly introduce new working patterns.
• More and more meetings will be called seemingly just for the sake of it.
• Your managers may ask you for more reports “in writing”.
• An increase in memos will start appearing, all relating to more rules, regulations, and working practices.

You will reach a stage where you may say to yourself that you have enough of all the bull, and either hand in your notice or simply walk out in frustration. And guess what? Your job won’t be readvertised, so it’s just one less overhead for the company.

In these days of rising fuel prices, crazy energy bills, and cost of living hikes, the last thing you want to happen is to suddenly be hung out to dry.

So, what can you do in the short term? Well, you could start looking for another company to join. If you’re exceptionally fortunate you may just be the right person in the right place at the right time. But chances are that isn’t going to happen. And even if it does, how long will it be before the same circle of events starts all over again in your new role?

What Can You Do?

And so, like hundreds of thousands of people worldwide you really need to start thinking about (and acting upon) a completely new way to earn a living. If one good thing has come out of the Covid era, it is that people can now see how easy it is to work from home.

• No more traveling to an office on a dark, cold, rainy morning.
• No more working alongside people you don’t really care for (especially the ones that have a body odour problem and nobody has the guts to tell them…).
• No more strict regulations about when you stop for a cuppa or lunch.
• No more thinking up excuses when your manager says, “could you just stop on a little later tonight as I’ve got a deadline to meet?”.
• No more being told when you can and can’t take a holiday.
• No more travel season tickets to buy at ridiculous prices.
• No more knowing that most of your car fuel costs are being spent to benefit your employer (i.e., fuel just to get back and forth to your place of work).

And I have no doubt you can add to that list…

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