Job Frustration – Symptom of Modern Life?
Runge Newspapers November 2007
In your father’s day, it was likely that a man getting a job would stay in that job until he was given a gold watch and retirement. Chances are a woman would have left work to raise a family long before retirement loomed. Times have changed. Young adults feel that change in the massive stresses of choosing educational paths, knowing their choice is no guarantee of security, or even employment.
Trapped in the middle, between those generations, are people who believed their career was a life-long commitment, and have to adapt to changes in the economy, or in their personal goals, that require a different direction. It is now common for a person to have three careers.
Sometimes the economy makes the decision, and a person has to remake their career to adapt. Sometimes, a person is driven to change by deep dissatisfaction, stress, or a need for greater challenge. Statistics Canada reports that up to 27% of employees attribute high job strain ‘when the demands of a job outweigh the freedom to make decisions or apply skills.’
Self-Mastery Expert Patricia Wall attributes job stress to changes in the types of requirements made on employees. “The subconscious mind finds it intolerable when requirements keep changing, or seem conflicting,” Wall observes. In today’s highly competitive marketplace rife with the changing requirements of reorganizations, conflicting demands of quality and difficult deadlines, this is common. “The subconscious will react by sabotaging performance, or withdrawal, or stress. Severe withdrawal looks like lack of interest in previously enjoyable activities, or the depression that’s becoming so prevalent.”
The solution for employees is to determine what provides personal satisfaction, and find ways to provide that satisfaction, either in their current job or elsewhere. “Satisfaction is internal,” Wall states. “You have to put it into the job, you won’t find it there. It is not a product of what you do, it is a result of putting your needs into the context of what you do.”
Investors Group presents Patricia Wall, Self-Mastery expert, at the ‘Change Your Job, or Change You in Your Job’ Seminar on November 20th, 2007 at 7pm at Holiday Inn at Centrum, Castlefrank & the Queensway. Wall will speak about the subconscious influences creating a need for career change, and the route to finding personal satisfaction in the workplace.
A donation of a canned food item for the Kanata Food Cupboard is requested as admission.
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