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I found a very depressing site the other day. It came up when I googled the phrase “I hate my job”: the “I hate my job” site. (What was I expecting when I googled that phrase anyway?) It’s full of people complaining about their job. And it’s more than just venting. Much of it is not only hostile, it’s hateful. Very few of them seem to be doing anything about their circumstances except venting. I wonder if they’re expecting to walk into the office one day and find some significant change having taken place overnight?

Individuals such as these are one reason why I set out to teach people how to find the perfect job. When you understand the science and psychology behind what’s involved in the search, you begin to realize it’s not only possible to achieve it, but it’s do-able in a short period of time and with you in control of both the process and the outcome.

The most common reason people fail to make a change is fear - or perhaps fear combined with landing in roughly the same kind of environment again. It’s like the person who’s been dating for so long and always winds up with a jerk. Pretty soon you just leap to the conclusion that that’s the only thing around, and don’t even realize that’s a fallacy. A shift in perspective and you can say, “Hey, maybe the problem isn’t out there. Maybe the problem is me.”

And once you’ve stopped blaming circumstances outside yourself, then you can take responsibility and be open to find a new way.

So fear of leaving, fear of change, fear of landing in the same kind of situation all over again, fear that you’ll never find a decent boss, that you won’t get paid well or enough or more, that it will be too far to drive (the list goes on) are all underlying - and often unconscious - reasons why change doesn’t happen.

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