Understanding anxiety, especially for colleagues at work, can be tough. But it’s the little things often than can be the difference between a good day and a bad day.
Sometimes it really is as simple as having a workplace culture that encourages everyone to say hello to each other in the morning; to have a nice evening before going home; and to not be afraid of asking if everything is okay, or giving your line manager or a trusted colleague the heads up when you’re not feeling your best.
Hey Sweeties,
Here’s the deal: sometime in your life, maybe once, maybe more than once, you’ll meet someone that with very little effort manages to crush you and make you feel like shit. Ordinarily, I would liken this behaviour to the bully everybody encountered or knew of at school. While I do not excuse the poor behaviour of anyone at school, that was school and once out in the real world those bullies have zero power, and any friends that turned into shitheads you could drop in an instant. However, when a workplace crushes the life out of everything you have worked for, that is different.
On Tuesday 2nd January I handed in my notice and by 10:30am I had left the building and was driving home. Two days into 2018 and I had voluntarily put myself on notice and into unemployment. I had been in this particular role less than three months.
In the life time of a person’s career, they will experience at least one job mistake, a wrong move, have a blip… but that’s okay, here’s why-
Investing in yourself is really important. You can’t always rely on employers, or your family to be the ones that are proactive about developing you in the ways that you need.
Both your family and your employer can offer guidance, and each in their own way will shape you and your experiences. But what are your goals? What do you want for you and how are you going to achieve investing in yourself?
I’m going to dispel the myth that I personally, do not believe in the ‘dream job’.
When you are first entering the working world, you are encouraged to fuel a belief and ideal, of your perfect job and that it is something that you aspire to achieve. However, very quickly you learn that many factors need to line up for a dream job to become a reality.
You’ll have your dream role, or a dream industry but over time your wants, needs and aspirations change as you grow older, develop experience, and increase your exposure to different working environments and people.
