Why everyone should work in a job they don't like at least once

  • Ethan Rivers by Ethan Rivers
  • 4 min read
  • 18 November, 2024
Why everyone should work in a job they don't like at least once

Sometimes in life it happens that a favorite job ends up being an unloved one. We ourselves often imagine things that do not exist in nature, make things up and idealize some aspects of our lives.

It happens that we, gritting our teeth, continue to convince ourselves that this job suits us, that we like these things and everything goes our way.

Somewhere in the back of our minds we realize that the “favorite thing” that we do with such passion is actually something we don't love, and we do it out of inertia, because we have no choice and because we don't know what we need in life at all.

Once upon a time, I got what I thought was my dream job. At the time, my dream job was anything related to computer security. I was over the moon, but I quickly realized that it wasn't as cloudless as I thought it would be.

The work was tedious, the bosses were pushing me, sometimes there was very little work, and sometimes you had to hand over a month's worth of work in three days. After working there for about a year and a half, I quit.

In principle, I still want to work in this field, but definitely not in such a position.

Many people do not know what a “favorite job” is at all. For such people, one job is distinguished from another only by one thing: how much money is paid.

Whether it gives pleasure, whether the team is pleasant, whether it is close to home, whether transportation is good... For such people there is no either all these concepts or several of them. Work for them is something that brings money, something that must be endured to get the cherished money.

They are not going to change jobs if the team is bad, between an interesting job and one that pays more, they choose the latter. And then they are genuinely surprised: how could you leave this job, THERE IS MORE MONEY!

So why should everyone work at a job they don't like?

That's how you'll know this job isn't right for you

Sometimes people have no idea what they want in this life. This is a great way to reduce the number of areas in which you don't like working.

The main thing is to understand exactly what it is that you don't like about your job: the team, the salary, or the process of doing the job itself. It is the last point that is important: doing the work.

That's how you understand other people

After all, there are different areas of social life that don't always overlap with yours. That's why it's so useful to work in the service sector and in the store.

On the one hand, it's great to see things in the store that are usually out of your field of vision, but on the other hand, it gives you a better understanding of the people who supply us with food, mop the floors and decorate the windows every day.

You have a better chance to see different types of human characters, meet some of them, talk about different topics and have a better understanding of the lives of others.

That's how you'll realize that money more often than not doesn't matter

If you plow at work without weekends, stay after hours for a few hours, but earn a little more, you may realize that money is not always important.

You always need the opportunity to take care of yourself, to come home and not think about work. How important it is to eat right, watch a movie in the evening with your loved ones or go to the gym - all of this can be lost when you work at a job you don't like that brings you steady money.

Soon enough you will realize that working with an unpleasant team and doing boring monotonous operations is bad for the psyche. You will literally feel the cup of anger being filled with a trashy nasty liquid, but it's useful, really useful.

Because then you'll have the opportunity to tell people that you've really appreciated the joys and sorrows of different activities in your life and tried to find your calling.

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