I feel stuck at work. Help!
With advice from Chekhov, Paradise Lost, and Sheenagh Pugh
I feel stuck at work. Somehow I've lost that loving feel. Help!
Hello to my enigmatic correspondent! You haven’t given me much to go on here, but in the spirit of answering every letter I get, I’ll do my very best to help you regardless. (Incidentally, if anyone else is looking to submit a problem, you can do so here.)
The first comfort I want to offer you, my concise friend, is knowledge you are not alone. Everyone hates work. Recently, a global survey of employee wellbeing found that only 23% of workers feel engaged by their jobs. So, if you are torturing yourself with some kind of story in which your friends wake up bright-eyed, skipping toward their soul’s purpose and doing overtime for lols, it is simply not true.
