In today's competitive environment, "not liking your job" can be a red flag.
Compared to other professions, finance and accounting work is considered to be the "older, the more popular" line of work. But the old chapter because they do not like, not only did not concentrate on learning new professional knowledge of finance and accounting, but also in the work of the burnout mood, ultimately leading to the departure, which had to let me wake up.
I graduated from the sales work, to now have 7 years time, but I have less passion when many young. In the face of the complexity of the relationship between colleagues, and tend to saturation of the market environment, I began to retreat, naturally, can not talk about like.
There is a saying on the internet: " If you don't like your current job, either quit or shut up. "
Most people think about quitting, but how many are reckless?
Shut up and don't say anything, and commiserating will only make you dislike it more and more. Then what to do next?
The question of how to deal with a career you don't like is an important one and needs to be considered in the long run. In the struggle, I found my friend Wen Bin, the workplace "old oil", to seek his advice.
Wenbin has been working for a Fortune 500 company for many years and has a lot of experience. He didn't give me any specific advice, but he taught me how to think y about the problem and find a solution to my own problem by combining the experience of others.
1. When faced with a choice, the first thing you need to do is to reacquaint yourself
When I revealed the dilemma I was facing professionally to Wenbin, he suggested that I should first get to know myself, as well as sort out the relationship between myself and my work.
Our careers are exciting because there are so many choices, and people make things happen for each other; but they are also confusing because there are so many choices, and people spend their time looking around.
Finding the right path for ourselves is a must for all of us. How to come out of the confusion, towards a wonderful life, let's take a look at the story of a cowman.
Maureen Hickey is the former global CEO of Chanel, and she also had a period of confusion about her career choice.
When she graduated from college, Maureen Hickey's classmates all planned their career paths in advance. Some went into finance and investment, some into management consulting, and some into lucrative careers in law or medicine, but Maureen Hickey was still clueless.
Maureen Hickey's father was a top lawyer, and she went along for the ride, taking the law school entrance exam. But halfway through the exam, she quit. Because she knew that this was not the path she wanted to take.
Later, Maureen Hickey came to realize that what she really wanted was to "live in Paris".
And she knew that she liked working with people. Recognizing this trait, Maureen Higuain began her career in marketing and worked her way up to a career in art and design.
When Maureen Hickey was faced with a career choice, she figured out what she didn't want and then picked out what she did want. That's not bad advice for us.
Albert Einstein said, "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem itself and 5 minutes thinking about the solution."
So if we don't like our career, we might want to ask ourselves a few more questions:
Do we really dislike it, or are we "forced" to dislike it?
We don't like the work environment, or we don't like the profession itself?
Sometimes we like a job, but we are forced to choose another one. Sometimes we just don't like the company culture or the work atmosphere, but we recognize the career itself.
How to choose, everyone has his own answer. You have to really know yourself to find that answer.
2. Try to like what you do
Most people have more opportunities to choose a career when they are young, or when they graduate from college. Once we're entrenched in a field, it's hard to change career paths - after all, success in every industry is a matter of years and years of hard work.
If we give up the knowledge, experience, and connections we've accumulated and enter a new field, we may need to work harder to catch up. There are risks involved that we have to consider.
In the face of risk and "dislike", we have to choose the lesser of two evils. If the risk is too great, it may be best to take the initiative to like what we do.
Can we make ourselves "like" the job if we don't like it anymore?
Yes, we can!
There was once a young man who disliked his job, but became the "Saint of Management" in Japan.
The name of this young man was Kazuo Inamori. He founded two Fortune 500 companies, and then, at the age of 80, he accepted the request of the Japanese government to save Nikko, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.
When he graduated from college, Kazuo Inamori could not find a job. After being introduced by a kind teacher, he entered a ceramic products company to work.
However, Kazuo Inamori studied organic chemistry in college, and is now engaged in the ceramics industry is inorganic chemistry. The key is that he is not interested in the ceramic industry, how to talk about like? What's worse, the company he works for often owes wages, which makes the already strapped Kazuo Inamori even more dissatisfied.
The face of many "do not like", Inamori Kazuo did not complain, he began to take the initiative to "like" their work.
Kazuo Inamori devoted himself to research, in order to save more time, he moved pots and pans into the laboratory. In order to keep up with the world's most cutting-edge ceramics research, he hungrily read specialized magazines and books to make up for the lack of expertise.
From this point onward, Kazuo Inamori slowly came out of continuous suffering and frustration, and his career gradually moved towards glory.
Dong said, "When you genuinely want to make something happen, the whole universe will unite to help you." After knowing the story of Kazuo Inamori, I have no doubt about this saying of Dong Qing.
Instead of working with negativity in our limited life, we should change our mindset and try to like what we do.
The "like" here is a kind of action, which requires us to find a breakthrough in the mundane, boring, or even tired of the work. As long as the whole heart into it, pay no less than anyone else's efforts, you will be able to find the wonderful work. And with it, a sense of fulfillment and happiness.
Then, "like" will become a feeling.
3, when the time is right, let go of it
After hard work, can like their own work is certainly a blessing. However, things are unpredictable, who can guarantee that they will not change jobs for the rest of their lives? If we are faced with a career choice again, what should we do to take the road less traveled?
As the saying goes, "When there is an old man in the family, there is a treasure." When we face confusion, consulting experienced elders or professionals may help us solve the mystery.
The story of Grandma Moses is known to many and her life is nothing short of a legend. Grandma Moses started painting at the age of 77, had an exhibition at the age of 80, published her autobiography at the age of 87, and her story was still being told until the time of her death at the age of 101.
A book published before her death, "You Only Live Once, Do What You Love," contains stories and Grandma Moses' attitude toward life that have inspired and motivated many.
Grandma Moses once sent a postcard in response to a letter from a young man facing career confusion. The message on the postcard was, " Do what you love and God will help you open the door to success, even if you are now 80 years old. "
The young man who wrote the letter was called Junichi Watanabe. At this time, he had already earned his doctorate in medicine and was serving as the head of the medical section of a medical school. However, due to his disillusionment with his medical career, Junichi Watanabe opened his path to literary exploration. The encouragement of Grandma Moses also allowed him to rediscover the direction of his life and eventually become a famous contemporary Japanese fiction writer.
While it is important to have someone to show you the way, it is even more important to realize it on your own.
When faced with a career you don't like, everyone has their own solution.
Junichi Watanabe quit medicine and became a writer because the time was ripe. He had no financial pressure at the time and had a good literary foundation and had published many academic papers and works.
Kazuo Inamori's approach to facing a job he didn't like was not to run away, but to take the initiative to embrace the work;
Maureen Hickey didn't choose a career as a lawyer, which her father was engaged in, or any other path with a brighter future. Because she knew exactly what she had and understood what she wanted.
Learning about other people's stories, I was in deep thought. In the world, there is no definite law, how to find what is right for you?
Wen Bin first helped me analyze the problem and reacquaint myself with my work. He told me that, in general, we have to go all out and try to enjoy our work. In doing so, we will deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world, which will help us make better career choices in the future.
If you are a newcomer to the workplace, it is best to choose what you should do based on your own characteristics. It is more important to be pragmatic and improve your skills than to "talk about what you like".
If you're already successful in your field, but you see people who have achieved more in their field, you know it's not what you want. Then build up your strength appropriately and one day you will set sail for your dreams again.
If your career choice involves topics such as happiness, value, and meaning in life, then the best thing to do is: listen to your inner voice, and it will take you where you need to go!