Hello! I will tell you about my problem. I `m 29 years old. I have been working in government work for about five years, generally quite boring, but also responsible. In the beginning I had a lot of enthusiasm, gradually I got into the essence of the work. I would say that I have always been an example in my service, I have always helped everyone, I have contributed as much as I can. Something has been happening to me since November. I began to lose motivation, tasks began to lag behind, I became apathetic and cold to people, I hated my job for no objective reason. I began to fear the smallest challenges. People usually hate their job because of overwork, bad relationships with colleagues, too strict bosses or lack of regular pay. The truth is that I do not have any of these problems. Certainly what I do is not my hobby either, nor anything that has been or may be of interest to me. That's what I've found and that's what I've been doing for five years. My interests extend light years from the field in which I work. I would even say that I no longer know what interests I have. But probably 80% of the workers are like that, unfortunately ... Even my higher education is something that is definitely not my passion, on the contrary. Every day, for half a year now, I just want to leave. I feel that the cycle is in one place, that there is nothing more to give and the work has nothing to give me. I definitely feel unhappy and confused. I change my mood every 10 minutes literally. On the one hand I feel that I am out of place and I have to leave to feel free and find a new path in my life, and on the other hand at times "common sense" prevails and I say to myself "don't do stupid things so that you don't regret ,, The problem is that I live in the countryside and I'm not one of the most groundbreaking and I don't know if I will find another job at all. I'm afraid I won't become another shiver, although I still feel at the bottom. Advise me what to do, take a risk or stay in my current secure but tedious job
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This is called burn out. Hey, just for no apparent reason, your work just becomes disgusting, apathy pushes you and you get stuck. The best medicine is to take a long vacation and during that time to have a good rest and then when you return you will be able to judge whether it was a "temporary crisis" and everything is still OK or you completely hated your job and it's time to look for something new. I have been at my current job for 7 years now and I have been on the verge of leaving for several reasons for similar reasons, but after a few days of rest I find that my work is not so bad and I return to the office. I hope I was useful!
Look for a new job, go for interviews and run away from government work.
Change your job only when you find a new one. Hunger is stronger than electricity, you will last a good year without work, and then. One day how will you retire when you already have 1 year of lack of experience. I know about the theory of pensions, but I believe we will get them, he is 70 years old.
I also want to support the author and ask - what do you think, who have worked in government work and other work? What would you advise us who want to leave the government job? Is it worth it or will we make a mistake?
You change only if you have a new option. Otherwise - you spell badly. Money saved, they leave quickly. And you think that way, because you are alone and you live with your parents. If you had a family or were in a dormitory, you would never have such thoughts about experiments. Everyone has some crises and not always everything and he is six at work all the time, but there comes a time when you press your rags, especially if you have children or you are 30. You are on the verge of the age at which you can to experiment. Another 5 years and it will be too late. If you have decided to take a risk, now is the time, but this must be a measured risk, not - I am leaving and I will think about it later. This is irresponsible. And it is assumed that a man should be able to support a family, just as it is assumed that a woman should cook, clean, etc.
I went through something similar when I was 27. I had broken up with my girlfriend, even before that, when I went to work, everything seemed gray, boring and monotonous. On the other hand, I lived alone in a house after major repairs, I could not complain about the lack of friends or female attention. My money was enough to keep me from doing nothing. All my acquaintances explained to me how good I was, but I felt that something was wrong. I found a job in England and left for a while and then came back to live my life a little longer. And I opened a lot of new doors for career development ... The reason for such burnouts is always quite complex and is not limited to work. You need to try to understand exactly what is irritating and stressful in your current daily life. Start there - girlfriend,
Try a vacation. I was like that - 4 years, with a vacation, only on holidays. I didn't feel like resting because I felt bad that instead of working and saving, I was wasting. It was all just to have money for rainy days, then to have money for my family, for the house, for the education of my eventual child, for the wedding. Um ... sometimes we have to pay attention to ourselves.
From №3 To №4: Government work is preferable in the long run, especially if it is an agency or a ministry, I work in a government agency, I would leave one day because the work is a lot, responsible and I do not know how it will be. The advantages are many : your salary is never late, it increases little by little if you are breakthrough and impudent, there is a chance for a course or specialization, you have a vacation, and even extra, the environment at least for me is relatively intelligent - people with education and languages, if you can use sick leave, because they provide the full salary, the law on civil servants protects you if you are a decent and normal employee, women go out without maternity problems and much more. In the private sector you will learn more, but the risk is also more, the law does not watch over you like that, the employer decides what he wants, wages are delayed. Towards №5: The fact that the man supports the woman and she cooks and cleans, at least in some of the families in Sofia, is not true - neither are we. Until recently, the woman earned more money, and she is not at all in cleaning and cooking, I help her a lot, not to mention looking after the children, I am both a mother and a father.
If you have enough money to spend the next 6 months and if the situation is unbearable, leave now. If you can, somehow get out of the unemployment fund, even better. The point is to be safe and calm. I know that it is difficult, but after 10 years, unless you have made 300 leva per hour, you will hardly have a memory of this money. What will be left will be stress, nervousness, back pain and despair of life.
Don't quit your job, no matter how boring it is. If you run out of it, it will be time to get depressed, you will want to come back again, but the question is whether you will be accepted again. I feel that way right now. Depressed and confused. More than 10 years of work experience in the private sector and I finally decided to leave it because I was tired of everything and the work itself. But now I'm very sorry I did. I miss my team and my office. I want to come back again somehow, but they're unlikely to take me.
What happened? I had the same problem, and I wondered like you. I decided, I left, I played a few cv - that's it, but I decided to rest all summer. I took a vacation, I had a great time, I tried not to think about it. After the holidays, I got a call from several places, and I started a new job. Similar to the previous one, with the same pay, but half the time of the previous one. Now I have time and new people, it's interesting. Write what happened, I wish you success!