Freed by a job 9 to 5

According to several surveys almost 75% of employees are in a job they hate.

So why do they choose to stay? And furthermore, people losing their jobs because of the pandemic are not only stressed but are feeling they are losing their very lives.

The attachment to a job you hate may sound stupid, but the mind is tricky. It finds ways to settle and finds confort zones.

If you are working for someone ales, ando you are not completely and utterly responsible for the permanence, growth and performance of a company (and all the people and their families income) it is very easy to say “not my fucking job”. Even if you are super committed, there is always the option to say it, or blame someone else, or I had a bad day, or my life is not wonderful because my boss, or the company or the owner or whoever you want to blame anything. If you don’t have the owner mentality then it is not your problem, right?

Besides, if you are not the owner, you don’t have on your shoulders the uncertainty and pressure to figure out today what you should do tomorrow to bring your business to better performance, all day, every day. Uncertainty is scarce when you are an employee, your tasks and functions are almost entirely defined.

The downside of having a job is very sad. Statistically, you belong to that 75% that day after day live an empty life.

I think for the majority, they could be happier doing something they love, even if it is very hard to do it, maybe more because it is hard. The thing is, they are very afraid to try it. This damn evolution made us so resistant to change.

So, you see, maybe all these events that Covid19 has fatally brought upon us, for many, being forced to change, the pandemic could be the best that happened to them.