i just got a 50cent raise at work but i still feel like i should be doing something else?

Question

i told them i was gonna quit if i did not get this raise to persue other things and when they told me this morning i got 50 cents raise perhour i felt dissopointed like i wanted them to tell me no so i had a reason to leave what the heck is going on with me? help!!!

Answer 1

If you hate your job, money doesn't matter. You can make all the money in the world and be miserable. I say find yourself a job that you might half-way like. Money isn't everything

Answer 2

Is moneyeverything for you? Look, the most important thing will be the job satisification. You should see your job description and ask your boss to review your performance through periodical assesment. After the assesment, ask him to explain where did you went wrong and what should be done to improve it. Usually, handling a clerical job is a daily basis work and do not have a pressure but the most important think will be strategic part, wher you should develop the skill and show your management that you are up to any task and can deal a job given to you even making a critical decission with a supporting materials for your decission. Once you have achievied this, you will be happy with the job, you will not tend to leave, even you are not given a raise.

Answer 3

well if u find urself making up excuses for them to let u go and feel unhappy or unfulfilled working there then u should most definitely quit. But by u makin an ultimatum and them giving u the raise it se4ems as if u are valued in ur workplace and is sumthin alot of people arent now-a-days... but do whatever makes u happy becuz the worst thing to endure in the world is to have 2 go to a job everyday and hate being there

Answer 4

You have to decide whether you want to work to live, or live to work. It sounds like this is a fairly low-scale job, if your on hourly wages, so maybe this question isn't immediately facing you, but it's related.

Basically, figure out if you're willing to work a job you hate just for the money to do things you enjoy, or whether work is a larger part of your life and you need to enjoy your job to feel satisfied with your life.

If the second part is true, quit your job and find something you enjoy.

Answer 5

Only you can change the situation you're in. If you are not satisfied with your career and or the pay, change it. Constantly learn new skills, knowledge, and experiences. The more you know the more valuable you become. Respect everyone and treat them better than you treat yourself. Work with a passion. Your reputation is the best weapon you have. Constantly seek internally and outside your company for better careers/positions.

I am not familiar with your background so I can only give you basic info to better your chances higher income with a better career.

You are the only one standing in your way. Go for it.

Answer 6

"I Hate My Job"

By Melanie Lasoff Levs

Find out how to make a job you hate tolerable – or what to do next when you've decided to leave.

Persevere While Planning
While you look for a job and persevere in the miserable one, immediately build pleasurable activities into your everyday life, says Rebecca Kiki Weingarten, a career and life coach and co-founder of New York City-based Daily Life Consulting. Go for coffee or a walk during the day, or plan enjoyment for the weekend. One of Weingarten's clients started a side business selling her paintings. Another went horseback riding every weekend. "When people are miserable, everything looks terrible and everything seems hopeless," Weingarten says. "It releases some steam so you can look at [the situation] clearer."

Experts also recommend is designing your dream job. Write down what it feels like and looks like to walk in the door, where you sit, what your tasks are, who is around you, your salary, your work hours and every other detail. Draw on this ideal situation in your current job and as you search for a new one, Weingarten says. "We're making it conscious so you're empowering yourself to make this decision, to plan it as opposed to your life just happening to you," she says.

That's what April Prather, an executive with a long career at Eastern Airlines and American Express, did. Her college-aged daughter was tired of hearing her mother complain and suggested she'd be good at medical massage. Prather, now 58, went to school at age 50 to train for a whole new career, which she started in 2000. Her practice in Bethlehem, Pa., is thriving, she says, adding that she did not let her unpleasant job paralyze her. Instead, she kept her options open and took action for the more fulfilling career she deserves. She advises other dissatisfied working women to do the same. "If you leave yourself open, an answer will come. It's not easy to get there," Prather says. "But if you're open to that change, you can find some real happiness."

Thinking you hate your job?

Here are some resources and experts mentioned in PINK's April.May article to help you make sense of your situation and figure out your next steps to deal with job dissatisfaction.

1) Sherron Bienvenu, career coach: chinup.net

2) Liz Ryan: WorldWIT online professional women's network: worldwit.org

3)Laura Berman Fortgang: author of Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2005), available at stores and online: laurabermanfortgang.com

4)Rebecca Kiki Weingarten, Daily Life Consulting: dailylifeconsulting.com



10 Ways to Fall Back in Love with Your Job

1) Try to improve relationships.

2) Openly communicate with your boss. You may have to brag on what you do because he or she may not know.

3) Delegate some of the things you don't like to do.

4) Get feedback. Ask people how you're doing.

5) Do something for yourself, such as a project that reminds you of why you took the job in the first place.

6) Get rid of at least one task that doesn't need to be done.

7) Enjoy working with other people.

8) Keep a sense of humor.

9) Your health is your wealth. Take care of your body. No job is worth sickness.

10) Get a life outside of work.

Answer 7

All occupations consist of solving someone else's problem.

Find a problem you love to solve so much, you wake up and say "I get to go to work today!"

Life is too long to work merely for money.