♦ What is your advice for people who want to turn their current part or job into something meaningful or inspiring?
♦ What did you do in your past to focus or find a purpose in your job?
With these two questions addressed me Andrew Seaman,, a senior content editor from LiknedIn news, that brings you the newest business issues and insights to stay up to date.
Thank you, Andrew Seaman, for addressing me with the following questions. I decided to address the second question first: What did you do in your past to focus or find purpose in your job?
So like most of us, I finished my higher education between my 20-30s and started working for “Ackerstein” industries. After four years full of hard work, we moved from a small office, where we worked like a family, to a huge and spacious building. The nature of work created distance between all the workers and the feeling of a change was felt between the employees.
i found myself frustrated, worn out, impatient, powerless as to promoting myself in the corporate. All of these feelings have eventually driven me to look for a new workplace.
I quit my job, and soon realised what a mistake I just made. It was a difficult year for me. but, through the difficulty, i matured, i became stronger and re-built myself. I was lucky enough to have the chance to return to the same company around a year later. This time, a managerial position, in which I was able to grow and blossom throughout the years. A new window full of opportunities that is pretty rare has opened for me and given me and the company a big contribution.
A ROLE OF THE WORLD OF WORK IN DETERMINING THE HAPPINESS INDEX
We lived in some sort of a cultural “bubble” that determined that with the help of financial growth we can allow ourselves to have a better life, although reality patted us on the face time after time. We created an environment that encourages working around the clock without any boundaries, that demands availability 24/7 and became a reality for most of us. People were “measured” based on their work status, and less measured for their value as human beings.
♦ younger people, “hi-tech” generation, were sucked into the work life. They don’t have spare time or enough power to develop relationships that demand effort.
♦ Moms run around the infinite working circle in order to split time between their commitment and their job, the house and the kids.
♦ Relationships became frustrating, women demanded equality from men when it came to taking responsibility and slowly the understanding that a dress or a vacation would not really fill the gap in the heart.
♦ Many came home at night tired, “chilling” in front of their flat screens watching reality shows or playing video games. There isn’t much strength left for the family and kids, let alone to invest in the relationship.
Therefore, no wonder that the rate of people transferring from one workspace to another is so high. Many claimed that changing a workplace will bring relief to the emotional stress they have suffered.
It was a crazy era that brought many of us to search for a different meaning for life.
QUESTION: HOW CAN WE CHANGE THE DIFORMED PICTURE?
Every work relation has blossomed, we made an effort, we were essential, creative, we made a big contribution to the corporation and to ourselves.
When there was a change for the worse: competitiveness, destructiveness of colleagues that got promoted and were crucial for the company, the motivation was down, there was a feeling of wear out and after a period of suffering we found ourselves out of the working cycle.
research has shown that employees will rather have a positive environment than have a raise!
If we create a close environment, cooperation, trust and familyhood we can achieve the desired results – fixing the relationships between us. we will earn a change in our social climate, we can create thinking centers, a raise in motivation and trust, the employees will come smiling every morning to the workplace.
we can overcome “negative hoarding”.
That way, out of communication, we built a new emotional intelligence that will uplift the company.
from this point, the sky's the limit.