Why don’t we leave our jobs?

Let’s be real here–most of us do not like our jobs. In fact, Less than half of Americans are satisfied with their jobs, according to a 2006 survey of 5,000 households recently released by the Conference Board (any true Office Space fan could have told you that without some fancy survey ) . So, why don’t we just get out there and find a new job that we will like better? I have identified 3 major reasons why we don’t in hopes that writing them down and publicizing them will help me in my personal quest to overcome these rather silly excuses.

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
-Joshua J. Marine

1. Laziness and Lack of TIme–Looking for a new job can require a rather large investment of time. Are you ready to make that commitment? For me, one of the hardest things for me to do when I get home from work (or when I am off) is to start searching for jobs. Instead, it is much easier to relax and use my time for more fun things. To overcome this, I need to designate specific times that I will use to job search.

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.”
- Anonymous

2. Belief that Things Will Get Better–Having a positive attitude is certainly a good thing. Burying your head in the sand is not. I am a very positive person–always looking at the glass as half full. Even though I believe that this is a good quality to possess, in this situation it is a detriment. I believe that any objective observer would advice me that I have exhausted my healthy dose of positive thinking and now must graduate to the acceptance stage.

“In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.”
- Brian Weir

3. Fear of the unknown–Will I like my new job? Will I still be happier in a year? Who will i sit with at lunch? WIll this company go bankrupt in two years? How will I get along with my new boss? All of these are valid questions. However, the real question remains, will I analyze them to death and do nothing or take a risk on something that might be great.

“Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
-George S. Patton

Okay, thank you for sharing in my therapy session

About a year ago, I was trying to be clever and set up blog names that might lead to easy traffic. One of them is obamaclinton2008.blogspot.com Today I was going through some old bookmarks and came across this forgotten site. I added a post linking this blog and will monitor any hits it generates. I wonder how much traffic I would get if that Obama/Clinton actually becomes the ticket? Currently, if you google obamaclinton2008, my blog is on the first page. I will keep you updated on this subject. Anyone ever do something like this with good results? Let me know.