I Hate Your Job

A Form Letter of Appreciation
This isn’t sarcastic. If you have a good boss, why not do this or something similar?! You can just click the “email this” link at the end of the article. If you do give it to your boss, you’d better email me to let me know! If […]

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On the way home from work yesterday, your jerk boss nearly got a ticket.
He was running late because the conference call you were both on went 30 minutes longer than planned, and in his haste, he went through an intersection as the light changed.
The cop parked in the gas station either hadn’t noticed or didn’t […]

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IHYJ Readers Share With Each Other
I’m going a little bit out on a limb here, trusting you to comment to make this post somewhat interesting.
What’s your ideal work situation? Is it no job at all? A wad of money? Helping people? Creating something? Teaching others? Charity, activism, or missionary […]

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An Introduction To This Feature
You spend 70% of your waking weekday dealing with your job. Do you want those days to be more enjoyable and more fulfilling? I do too. It’s too big a chunk of your time to just tolerate.
This blog helps you do that in two ways:

To address particular problems: Especially […]

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What’s the best way to stay productive even when facing a job you hate?
As we discussed yesterday, maintaining an decent attitude and an acceptable level of performance despite a miserable job is as difficult as it is important–very. You’ll need your own answer to the above question if you are going to prevail because […]

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Do you have hard time staying motivated to do something you can’t stand? If you are human, the answer is obviously yes. While it’d be nice to find a new job, it’s not always possible to just walk away, not in the short-term anyway.
We all struggle with being motivated to do unpleasant tasks, […]

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Martha’s response to the Top 5 Reasons to Hate Your HR Department post is a good one.

“People ( including HR people) have hearts, and feelings, and compassion. Companies are made up of people, but companies exist to make money for the owners and shareholders, and their commitment to keeping employees satisfied is based in […]

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Like most people, you probably go through life on a pretty steady path from week to week. I know I don’t overhaul my personality or change the course of my life on a regular basis, and you probably don’t either. As reader Jack pointed out in a comment, “People do not put as […]

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That’s right, I hate your job. Well, I take that back. There’s just a really good chance that I hate your job. Because if you hate your job, then so do I. And a lot of you hate your jobs. Many more of you wouldn’t use the word “hate,” but […]

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