How Job Satisfaction Affects Our Whole Life

Being unhappy with your job, your boss or company has a major negative influence on your mood, state of well-being and physical and psychological health. Energy levels deplete, anxiety increases and you dread getting up in the morning. It is even more challenging when you fear that you will never find a position, boss or company that you truly respect and look forward to having. Many people who find themselves in this situation become resentful of the job market or economy, directing blame at a culture they believe has developed around work resulting in people being viewed as mere human resources and not human beings with thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Have organizations changed to uncaring environments of exploitation and greed where people are dispensable or do a person's beliefs and actions play a part in what they attract through work?

Few people deny that the socio-economic reality of life in western society influences organizations to view employees as human resources who appear on the wrong side of the balance sheet. Despite the well-meaning intentions of organizations leaders and individual managers, the economic and accounting realities of running an organization seem to dictate the action they must presumably take in order to stay in business.

Despite the dominant economic frameworks of western society, what can an individual job seeker do to move from powerless pawn to empowered chooser and creator of their ideal work situation?

* Realize that you are 100% responsible for you experiences. This can be hard to grasp. Clearly people behave badly and work environments become toxic. It may not be your fault - but it IS your responsibility. You can decide how to think, react to and act in response to external circumstances.

* Identify any pattern that exists in the type of problems you face, the bosses you attract or the company cultures you have chosen to work in. There can be a surprisingly similarity in your choices - and you may wonder 'How does this keeps happening to me?'

Psychologists find that we all seem to somehow attract similar situations, people or problems until we identify and work through the original source of our challenge. It's as if we keep trying the same thing in order to get a different outcome. However good our intentions are to change, we must identify and remove any counter intentions that keep us stuck at an unconscious level. Without this, you will keep attracting similar work situations which may raise your anxiety levels and lead to depression symptoms. Maybe the problem isn't outside of you? It's a record you keep re-playing. Changing the internal pattern and learning to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens to you means you will attract different jobs, managers and companies and life experience.

Now that's empowerment!