Knock of ennui & put your career in a dynamic mode

Do you lug your hours at your workplace waiting for the day to be over? Do you fancy being at home at the earliest so that you could watch cricket match on TV? Do you find your day dull and dreary? Do you remain unfocussed in your present appointment? Do you get to be exhausted and exasperated at work? If yes, the writing on the wall is clear – you feel bored rigid, bored stiff, bored to death and bored to tears at work. This is indicative that your career is not on the correct course and manifests the need to set your bearings afresh.

Here are five practical tips to put your career in a dynamic mode:

Identify causes of your frustration:  You should introspect and identify issues that tend to upset you. Is it your charter of work or is it the manner in which your boss deals with you? Is it that your colleagues and fellow-workers do not support or encourage you? Or is it that the compensation package being received by you is inadequate? There could be a horde of causative factors, but that notwithstanding, you need to work out a line of action so that visible alterations to the situation are brought about. Concurrently, you also need to look within yourself to discern if there are any deficiencies in you that may be contributing to your grim situation. Thereafter, you should vigorously take in hand and deal with the problem. The solution could well be demanding what is due to you, going over to a new job, considering a career change or brazen out individuals who have been inconsiderate or unsupportive.

Prevail over apprehensions:  To start with, you need to put all apprehensions in picture; you should assure yourself that there is no concern and fright more monumental than your objectives. You may be shy to face an audience or angst-ridden to undertake an important project. You may also feel reticent to seek a salary hike. Whatever be the case, you must look all fears straight into their eyes. You simply cannot turn your back on them because rather than departing on their own, they will swell and sooner or later will affect your career adversely.

Brush up your resume:  If you feel that you are more than happy and contented in your present job and appointment, it is likely that you have had no time to glance at, leave aside update your resume. Men and women who seek to move ahead are invariably all set for their change. Can you predict when and where there would be a better opening? It could be within your present organisation or even elsewhere. You will be better poised to act in response to any fresh opportunity that may knock at your door if your resume is available duly updated at all times. You should catalogue all your accomplishments on a regular basis to facilitate the same.

Guide others & undertake additional responsibilities:  It is possible that you feel that your job is routinely dull and monotonous; and that you are capable of doing it without effort. It is also possible that you think that it is not viable to look for a better job for any reason whatsoever. Under such circumstances, what should you do to knock off that tedium? Perhaps, you could take to guiding others and sharing your knowledge acquired over a period of time. It will also be in the fitness of things to volunteer for additional responsibilities and projects like coming forward to be a part of study-groups or head working groups. You could also put your hand for training in a diverse field.  

Shed all rigidity:  The only possible impediment sticking up between your current actuality and your dream job or future could be parochialism. If you are not certain of what you seek, then you should dig into people who you know for help. You could ask them aspects that they enjoy about whatever they go about doing. In a large number of instances, people tend to become bolshie when they are required to view how they acquit at their work. Therefore, you should be amenable to considering suggestions and new prospects.

Remember that your ennui at work is a state of malaise close to anxiety and a feeling of emptiness.  You will never be able to see it all at once because it is like dust settled on a window sill – it is there and you hardly notice it but nevertheless you breathe it in. To preclude doing so, you need to be forever on the go.