When depressed in your job role...

RedfordML

what do you do to motivate yourself?
I have come to the end in my current role/field (education support) and am now sat writing this after another day of un happiness.
Hopefully most people are in jobs they enjoy, for those that are not, how do you keep motivated to stay in the role.
I am on the brink of resigning!! (however this is not true as with 3 kids, I cant just walk away)
I am so fed up my partner feels I should walk and start a fresh next year as he would do some overtime to find the short fall, but I feel extremely guilty (I earn 3 times my partner salary but this is still very little as partner p/t)
I job search daily and realise I will have to transfer to a new field which worries me also....

Right now, I am just looking for advice/tips to survive the days!

kaflinkle

I'm in the same boat and feel like I just want to quit (I can't either). Everything here is starting to !!!! me off, the work, the people, the journey.

I used to go to the gym at work and that used to help (I can't afford it now).

lincroft1710

Most of just stay (or stayed) where we are/were because it would be very, very difficult to find another job, or at least one that paid as well.

chrisyboy

Join the club, I am unhappy everyday, I watch co workers do very little, last to come in first to leave and reap all the benefits, it appears where I am the more you do the less down the ladder you are.

HappyMJ

When I find a job is depressing me or getting me down and making me uninterested in life I quit. I go to my GP first and get a diagnosis of work related stress hand in my notice and go onto jobseekers allowance and have never had to have a waiting period or a sanction for leaving a job.

However, I know not everyone can do that. I have always been a money saver. I can easily live on benefits and have money left over each week. All I cut out is just a few luxuries.

vroombroom

I have two jobs.

I work as a self employed cleaner during the day and today my client was a building site that I clean twice a week. I had a few days off and today I went in and almost walked out:

The bins in the cabin where the builders have their dinner hadn't been emptied since last week, so were overflowing onto the floor and there were flies too. Upon emptying, I found maggot flies in the bottom so had to bleach and disinfect them.
They also failed to flush the toilets so they were full of sh*t. There was p*ss over the walls by the urinals.

My other job is in a supermarket. It's 8pm-12pm at night so I often get home at 12:45am so am usually knackered. I work with a girl who is so up herself and me me me it's unreal. She makes it a depressing shift when she is in.

I don't particularly like either job but I'm stuck doing them. They fit round OH's shifts and our son being at school. I just repeat HOLIDAY HOLIDAY HOLIDAY HOLIDAY HOLIDAY in my head.

Polarbeary

Working fixed term contracts...if it's crap there's only a few months to go!

PrincessIona

I feel your pain, I'm so miserable in my job it's a struggle to get through each day. I really want to just leave but pride stops me from leaving without another job to go to

Dizzy_Ditzy

I feel all your pains too. So much so that last week I gave them my notice :eek: :j

Life is too short to spend a minimum of a third of your life being miserable. No matter how much you do, it never feels like it's enough

My situation is that I have an impossible workload, zero support, unhelpful management and most of my colleagues fall into two of those categories too. But I'm lucky in that I don't have a mortgage or children to consider and although I don't have a cast iron job to go to, I have back ups so that if I wasn't able to find a new job beforehand, I've still got FT work that pays enough if I need it.

I really do wish you all well in whatever choices you make, I know exactly how difficult it is

C_Mababejive

I think we need to be clear here. You use the word depressed but that is a state of mind affected by many things.

Are you saying your depressed and if so, are you saying your job is solely responsible?

ACG

Ive had 3 jobs which I did not like.
1 came after 3 years, the other 2 came within a month or 2 of starting.

Just find a new job. Its probably not going to get any better so your choice is to leave or move. Personally I would move as a void period doesnt look as good.