Job Satisfaction ….an ongoing experience!

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”-Mark Twain

Variety: Is indeed the spice of life

coming close on the heels of job satisfaction is the fact that one alleviates boredom at work.The very first signs of creeping boredom have to be done away with,where work is in the picture.The bored mind lacks interest and enthusiasm and even a well-matched job becomes not satisfying. Some common methods to alleviate boredom at work include:

• Training across domains and functions and learn new skills
• Try taking up new assignments or move across departments that require the same skills.
• Experiment with different shifts,meeting new people and experiencing newer environments
• Don't hesitate to take up new responsibilities
• Take breaks or holidays to break the monotony at work

Positive Attitude is all that it takes.

Its your upfront view that will help you perceive your job and your life in general.Being depressed, angry or frustrated, you're much less likely to be satisfied with anything. Making a change to a positive attitude is a complex process that requires a lot of work and a strong commitment. However, over time, you can turn your internal dialogues around and start to see most events in your life as positive and worthwhile. Here are some tips:

• Stop negative thoughts from entering your brain.
• Reframe your thoughts to the positive.
• Put the events of the day in the correct context.
• Don't dwell on setbacks.
• Commit to viewing obstacles as challenges.
• Accept that mistakes are simply opportunities to learn.
• Become an optimist.

Know Your Options

When you feel trapped, you can start to get anxious. At first you wonder what else is out there for you. This progresses to the point where you become convinced that anything other than the job you're doing has got to be more satisfying. To combat this, continuously scan your environment for opportunities. When you feel you have options, you have more control. When you make a positive choice to stay with a job, that job has much more appeal than if you feel forced to stay because you feel you have no alternative.

• Keep a list of your accomplishments.
• Update your resume on a regular basis.
• Keep up to date on employment trends.
• Research other jobs that interest you.
• Adopt an 'I’m keeping my options open' approach.

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Self Awareness

The very first requirement for a person to be at the job and to actively involve oneself is to introduce yourself to you. To be successful is one half of the glass the other half is being able to identify your strength and weaknesses. Because in true sense only the right evaluation of strengths will enable to build on the positives and a personal realization of weakness will help evaluate the wrongs and convert them into strengths.

It's always convenient to say that you dislike your job or are not satisfied with it but in reality can you say that you did the right thing by taking up that job in the first place? Take a long decisive look at the qualities you excel in and then try to find a position that uses some of those skills too. Yet one of the differentiating factors of self-awareness is to have a good understanding of your personality traits and your preferred style of working.

Improving self-awareness can assist you towards the perfect package of good compensation, rewards, power and a realistic goal. Knowing this will help one to stop being idealistic or fantasize achieving tall gains, instead setting appropriate goals and managing one’s expectations realistically.


More the similarities between your job and the requirements, greater are the chances for you being happy at your job and as for the rest of the constituents they would prod you to achieve the maximum from the said job.

Challenges

Everyone might hate or love a challenge depending on the earlier point of self awareness, if one chooses well you might end up loving your job, so also with the challenges associated with it. Does this mean your job has to be the head of engineering at ISRO? No, different things challenge different people at different times. One just needs to understand what is it that gets you going ? if a daily muted challenges enables you to go that extra mile then take it, prove it right and watch your confidence roar.

If the challenges are not a part of the job, then do set some goals for self improvement believe me they go a long way and always add credits to your character certificate

• Set some milestone with respect to performance, goals help visualising your achievements actively and also help setting challenges with colleagues to conquer
• Teach your skills to your colleagues, help them grow while you grow too
• Take on new responsibilities, these will give you opportunities to prove yourself.
• Start or take on a project that uses skills you would like to use, or want to improve.
• Commit to improve personally as well as professionally – take courses, read books or trade magazines and attend seminars. However you do it, keep your skills fresh and current.

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Failure and persistence:drawing inspiration from each other

Times when the results are announced the toppers and achievers are always lauded but we ignore to see the flip side of this....the failures.They never get spoken about what if they rise like the phoenix from ashes or bite the dust nobody cares. A great sense of humiliation and expression of self defeat can come from failing an important test or exam.

When helping someone through this crisis, it's important to deal with the situation without resorting to criticism, rebuke, or making the person feel inadequate or confirming their sense of being a failure. Success is crucial yet at times failure can be linked to many an external cause, a state of mind, and not necessarily to any internal cause of intelligence or aptitude. Encourage him or her to look to the positive side and to embrace practicing persistence. Remind them that the only real failure is to give up too soon. If it seems that the unsuccessful candidate lacks the motivation or the determination to continue trying, overcome this by focusing on their previous successes in exams, tests, and other challenges, and the strategies they used in those situations.

Take a moment to help them identify the benefits of continuing to stick with their goals over abandoning them - this makes an excellent writing exercise as creating a list can help them to see things more clearly.

If you have time, have a look online for stories about people who have taken exams or tests more than once. You might be surprised how many people have done so! But more to the point, these people eventually succeed because they don't give up.

Failure is the stepping stone towards being more resilient,and it gives the person more humility and also sharpens one’s objectivity.

It's a chance to take up the challenge more seriously than self

Failure teaches more than success and it helps one to stay on track more often than get strayed by success.

Negative criticism always act as brownie points to resurrect the faults and not take them personally.

Typically in fact, a recent research paper by Harvard Business School states that failed entrepreneurs have a better chance of succeeding in their second effort than first time ones. Moreover, second time entrepreneurs have a substantially higher chance of raising funding than first timers. If so, can failed startup experiences be useful for entrepreneurs who are starting out now?

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