How To Remake A Job You Don’t Like

By : Resumark.com

In happier economic times, it’s relatively easy to leave a job you don’t like and find one that suits you better. But with unemployment high and dozens or even hundreds of applicants clamoring for every opening, it’s probably not wise to leave a job you don’t like without first making an effort to improve it.

Your ability to remake a job you don’t like depends on several factors, including:

- The size and degree of bureaucracy in the organization — larger companies with rigid job descriptions are tough to change, while smaller firms where everyone willingly pitches in to get all the work done generally offer many more opportunities to remake your current job.

- Your own breadth of talent and ability — if you only know how to use a hammer, you’re pretty much stuck with a job that involves driving nails. But if you have several skills and/or the ability to learn new ones, you can probably prove your competence at more interesting and rewarding responsibilities than your present ones.

- Your current power and authority — If you work for a hard-nosed supervisor, you may have trouble getting permission to change any aspect of your job. To the extent you work for a flexible boss, however, or direct your own work, you’ll find it relatively easy to remake your job to suit your preferences and pleasures.

Given the constraints and opportunities surrounding your current position, here’s how to try remaking your current job into something more exciting and satisfying:

1) Look to match your authority to your responsibilities. Most workers have too little authority for the responsibilities they bear. You’re tasked with improving cash flow, for example, but you’re not allowed to change collection policies or practices. To make your job more palatable, work to get enough authority to do your job the way you feel is best. This change alone will make almost any job a great deal more satisfying, and it will also help you improve your daily performance.

2) Identify the parts of your job you like, then try to delegate, swap, or de-emphasize everything else. Only ideal jobs are 100% enjoyable, of course. Most real-world jobs involve doing some things you don’t enjoy. But the more you can off-load the work items you don’t like, the more often you’ll feel good while working.

3) Look for new opportunities, new challenges, new tasks, and seek to add them to your current position. One of the best ways to remake your job to be more satisfying is to take on challenging new tasks and responsibilities. Look around in your organization to see what’s already being done, or what should start being done, that you would feel good about doing. Then acquire the information, skills, and awareness you’ll need to do that work very well. When you’re ready, ask for the new assignment(s).

4) See about changing your venue. A remarkably large portion of what’s enjoyable about a job depends on where you do it. Most organizations are continually moving departments, rearranging work flow, and reconfiguring interior spaces. Get involved in this process and see about getting yourself into a nicer location. At the same time, start lobbying to do some of your work as a telecommuter. Most organizations already recognize the cost and productivity benefits of letting people work from home. If you can win permission to do this, even if nothing else changes, your job will become much more enjoyable.

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