1. The alarm goes off and a flutter of dread tickles your tummy. You bury your head back into your dream which seems infinitely better, not matter how bizarre, than the day that awaits. Dragging yourself from your bed equates, on a pain scale, as a ten.
YEP, TIME FOR A CHANGE.
2. Halfway through the day, a dull pain begins to beat a drum on your temples or behind your left eye or above your right eye – you pick. You rub at it in annoyance because you are too busy to entertain a headache right now. But it doesn’t listen, doesn’t even turn one ear your way. It kicks up a notch and, by the end of the day, the drumming has turned to a street jackhammer insisting you take notice. You creep home in defeat.
YEP, TIME FOR A CHANGE.
3. At some point in the day, anger wells like a serpent in the Garden of Eden, at the ineptitude of some hapless soul who couldn’t give a damn, or at the cretin computer which has no idea how easy this task should be, or at your boss for his/her irrational rantings which have little to do with reality.
YEP, TIME FOR A CHANGE.
4. RSI has become an unwelcome friend which has moved in and shows no signs of leaving. All those tiny repetitive movements on the computer with that weirdly named mouse, or the tap, tap of your fingers typing have finally taken their toll and are paying you back big time. Our bodies are made for big movements and thrive on them, not these tiny pathetic wriggles that are not recognised as anything but annoyance.
YEP, TIME FOR A CHANGE.
5. An invite to a social event with your workmates sounds like a punishment equal to those invented by Dante for his characters in Dante’s Inferno. Does your stomach turn to gelatin at the thought? Does your mind start spinning to find an excuse, any excuse, to avoid attendance?
YEP, TIME FOR A CHANGE.
6. In quiet moments at work, do you wonder what the hell you are doing wasting your life away inside four walls, chained to a desk? Do you have dreams very different from your reality? Do you long for that lucky break which will release you from this prison, which will free you to live the life you were always sure was awaiting you?
YEP, TIME FOR A CHANGE.
It doesn’t matter whether your score is five or one. A score of one is enough to make that change.
Yes! It is time for a change … we only get one life and it’s too short to be miserable. We have to create the life we want and make it a life we love. Anything else will just have us lying on our death bed, full of regret. I certainly don’t want that!
That’s exactly where I got to – life is too short to be miserable all the time. Realising it is the first step.
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Thanks so much, Christy. I have ‘liked’ the FB page so I can see what you get up to.
I felt like that the last few years I worked a corporate job. Unfortunately, my method of escape involved having a heart attack and becoming disabled. Yours seems a better method!
Oh, Jackie, that’s horrible. I’m glad I haven’t waited that long but was starting to get very worried about getting a stress related illness above and beyond what was already happening to me. I hope you are coping well now.
I would give anything to get away from my dull, beige workaday job, with uninspiring people (odd considering i work in the Arts industry) who can’t deal with change, aren’t interested in social and civil chat (barely even say hello to you in the morning) and managers who waver between obsessive over irrelevant things or not caring (my team manager hasn’t even come over to the team to say happy new year and we are three days in). Add to that an office bully who likes to target a random person every so often for no reason and i am well and truly over it. Trouble is, we are trying for a baby (no success so far) so the time is not right for me to upsticks. So i get up at stupid o’clock every morning, commute for over an hour on a crowded train and grit my teeth, watching the clock til knock off time.
Elli, I feel for you! I have been there, in a different office job, with a bully. She got away with a lot but eventually I exposed her and she was forced to leave. Bullies only exist if we allow them to. Your team manager sounds like an unhappy person, who also hates his/her job.
I think you have to make a choice between the baby and changing jobs – at least initially. I am presuming you would be continuing working after having the baby from what you are saying. Why not get the job you want first so that you can be a happy mother for your child? Unhappiness spreads to everyone around you.
Good luck with whatever you choose.