Mondayitis: It’s time to explore your career.
How many people do you hear say they look forward to going to work, or enjoy their jobs? How many Sundays do you spending dreading the next day? Career dissatisfaction can slowly creep up on you, or be a sudden feeling that you just can’t ignore. Either way, you can feel stuck, undervalued, uncertain about what to do about it. Negative feelings can show up as every Sunday…where you feel this sense of dread about going to work the next day. Then the next day you say you have “Mondayitis”.
Since Mondayitis isn’t exactly diagnosed as a medical disease, it can be explained by symptoms, and is an emotional problem that needs solving through a number of different strategies.
There are many reasons why people are unhappy with their career. Generally, there are a few reasons that cause it. Issues with work-life balance, job satisfaction, managing stress, feeling overwhelmed, or just feeling bored with the routine.
Some more precise challenges include difficulties with management, colleagues, or the company values, to the tasks, location, hours, or the pay. Which factors are relevant with your own work engagement?
Therapy can be a type of coaching, just as many coaches have skills in therapy. In fact, having support to explore what you need to do to solve any problem you have with dissatisfaction can be a tremendous help, whether it’s from a therapist or a coach.
For many years I used to work in helping people obtain new roles. Gone are the days where people stay in one job for their whole career and the rate technology is changing now is faster than we can know what the technology does. If you feel fear about change, it’s time to get help in finding your opportunity to get past it.
The opportunities coming, are not necessarily the opportunities that have been. It’s a time for people to explore what they really care about, what they are good at and how they want to spend their time earning money.
It’s time to see someone for help if you are experiencing:
- work-related stress,
- anxiety about your career or aspects of your workplace,
- feel burnt out,
- are having conflict with your colleagues or managers,
- are struggling to focus at work or on tasks,
- feeling like you really need a change but don’t know what to change to or how to do it,
- believe you are not good enough for the role you have,
- have been, or are going to be, laid off or fired, or
- having trouble adjusting to a new role or being in an unfamiliar industry.
***It is urgent to seek support if you are feeling physically unwell due to emotional stress, or you are having trouble in your personal life because of your job, or if you feel a sense of helplessness, hopelessness, or meaninglessness regarding your career.
Life should be a process of development. Coaching, and therapy, can be successfully undertaken no matter how important you might think addressing dissatisfaction is. It doesn’t have to be urgent to do so.
Ultimately, life is quite short. Aside from sleeping, we spend a lot of time focussing on our careers. If you consider the fact that what we focus on contributes to how we feel, then it’s a good idea to spend your focus on enjoyable and progressive things. Things that have meaning.
Addressing Mondayitis requires you to take action to start changing. This process involves quite a few steps. The sooner you start, the sooner you will begin to feel a difference. You can do it!
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