Jobs getting drowned in the ocean of boredom and monotony – Understand what’s actually happening!

Finding hard to get out of that bed every single morning?

Has boredom taken over your work, life and relationships?

Is it taking ages to get that job done?

Trust me, these are not the real questions to ask. One needs to dig deeper before exploring answers to these flustering questions. Our career is the only constant thing that goes on, irrespective of any phase of our life: getting married to our better half; becoming a first time father; getting your children married. All these phases are temporary in life and has the ability to keep us contented only for a while. However, if you look closely into your daily schedule, you will find that majority of the time an individual spends his time is at work.

The rough fact signals that work consumes over half of our life. If so is the case, don’t you think our career choices have the capability to affect our mood, our emotions, and our relationship with others. It actually has, isn’t it?

Understanding all of it, here’s a sad fact:

“In the 2015-2016 Gallup polls, the evidence is that about 70 percent of people are not engaged in what they do all day long and about 18 percent of people are repulsed, they’re actively disengaged from what they do.”

This is a problem, isn’t it?

The reason I call it a ‘Problem’ is because ‘work’ is what we mostly do. We spend so much time at work than with our friends or families or in fact with things called ‘hobbies’. Remove work from our life, and we will be unable to define ourselves, we suddenly will lose all our identity. And hence, if people start feeling that work is a thing they need to shut off from, a thing that gets on the way to the weekend, a thing that does not let one be the best of them, then it is a problem. A better word: sickness. though humanistic, it is still a sickness. This behaviour is not just bad for our own self but also, the organisation that we are working for.

A Little Background, ‘Cause some people need facts, more facts

Long back when the idea of bigger organisations was still to take the structure… People still worked, still earned their livelihood, still ran their family. The Only difference? People back then enjoyed what they did.

What changed in all these years, you ask? The idea of ‘curiosity’, ‘meaning from work’ was removed, obviously to meet greater targets. Earlier, the work was handled on a stretch from start till the end by one single individual, they understood the bigger picture. For an instance, a shoe maker handled everything from watching a customer walk in, to seeing them leaving happily with their requirement. They had satisfaction which worked as a kick for them pushing them forward every single day.

The Real Question: Why are we unable to do deal with our work?

Today, the employees are limited by the KPI (Key Performance Indices) which in a way helps the organisation meet the target, and to scale up their business. But this also led to tying employees with tight job role descriptions, numbing their heads; prohibiting them to understand the bigger picture and decipher meaning out of their work. It’s not that we do not come up with ideas but there’s no time; there’s already so much on the table that we end up dropping the idea at all.

Conclusion: Do not blame the job, Do not blame yourself, Do not blame anything. This is to give you enough assurance and elevate you from the thought that you are incapable, the work culture is at fault. Bring a change at your workplace, after all it all starts with YOU.