How do you tell your boss you hate your job and you are only doing this for the money, that is why you consistently avoid his phone calls?
Well, you don’t.
You tell him how much you love the job and the people.
When performance reviews arrive and your manager asks you if you are doing good, never tell him you are not. He is not interested in your well being, well, maybe he is. But even if he is, he can’t do anything about that because he is not THE boss, and the people who are actually bosses don’t want to hear that you are not doing okay. Unless you are the boss’s favorite, but if you are , you wouldn’t be not doing great.
The point I’m trying to make is that everything is a popularity game. In order to stay on top, you have to feel chilled under crisis and remain bold and smart under fear. And guess what: this sense of ownership and confidence shouldn’t be forced out of a job, it should come out naturally if you are meant to take up that job. Perhaps you may not be so great at it in the beginning, but trust your intuition.
Everyone is meant to be great at something. Find that thing and stick with it no matter how tough the times are. You are meant to do a job and only there could your approval rating skyrocket.
Go find that thing. And if you don’t know, start trying.
“Everyone is meant to be great at something.”
Sadly, no. You might end up being just competent, but if you enjoy doing the activity, why stress out over being “great”?
There’s no “meant”. There’s no game plan, no DNA code for your path, no destiny. You’re in charge of you.
I guess you are saying that sometimes, what people like and what they are good at are different?
I think everybody wants to be great at something, right? It doesn’t have to be career, it could be great at being a mother or a husband.
Anyways I can’t seem to reconcile the fact that some people go through life without being passionately in love with what they do. Perhaps that’s why people get married… to get their mind off of things when more important ones come up…