Feeling meh about work is anyone else. January blues ?

[Lolabray]

I am in a role not particularly enthralled with but I put my all into despite feeling a bit stuck like a hamster on a wheel like the rest of us in the rat race. I would love to jump off the wheel set something up but this is not possible for me financially.

We are not sure if our jobs are safe at the moment so I keep thinking oh well I still have a job and try to be positive .. but at the same time it is hard as I know deep down I’m lying to myself. I will find out later in the year what is happening but looking around.

I am thankful for my job, it pays the bills and feeds us but at the same time I feel put off by things and the way it is run and also my manager. It feels like bitter sweet almost like lying to myself.

Need the job to pay the bills but also need motivation to enjoy the job to pay the bills if you get me.

@Lolabray we're just giving this thread a bump for you. We're sure you're not the only one feeling this way.

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Yes me too (though currently off with covid). I feel the same about my job. Very adminy and also sometimes stressful and not what I really want to be doing with my time.

Oh yes same here! Cba to do anything, I've given it my all in the past but now I just feel meh.

What would you rather do @Lolabray?

YANBU I should have been born one of the idle rich - there must have been a mix up somewhere.

I’m feeling completely meh this week too OP. Can’t summon the silly energy to get into a motivational flap about all this work. Also WFH.
I came back to work feeling… oh F off the lot of you… not refreshed or reenergised, at all!

YANBU. My job is the best I've ever had - but only because all the previous jobs were worse! It's fine, don't hate it, all quite manageable, but... meh.

I have agreed with a friend who does a similar job elsewhere that this is our last job of this kind. We don't know what's coming next, or when, but we want this to be the end of the 'meh'.

(although like you I am trying to be grateful for a job that pays the bills, and isn't awful. Hard, isn't it?)

Just take an easy start to the year.

Your motivation will kick in.

People have too many expectations around a new year and good things seem too far away.

By the way have never seen Mumsnet give a bump!

I feel exactly the same. I'm totally burnt out and actually contemplating a complete career change. I am grateful to be in a secure job, but the thought of carrying on for another 25-30years until I retire is just impossible.

I have the energy and the motivation, well I did on Tuesday when I started the day with optimism and hope for the new year, now we have rolled onto Friday afternoon, the biscuits are open and I am wondering what the point is and if I am just wasting time. I can do stuff around the house as long as I keep an eye on my message boxes. But I know that there is loads I should be doing and it is all stacking up so I feel uneasy.

I have totally had it with my immediate line manager and the rest of the board who don't seem to think talking to the team is important. So far this week I have 'met' with my direct reports and 4 other teams and we are all getting along fine but without the input from board level we can't get on with our jobs.

I work from home, which is OK, but I miss the buzz of the office and the adrenaline rush when things go wrong, or just managing people and processes which isn't the same on a remote basis.
I am well paid to sit around, but then when something does need doing I struggle to motivate myself.

As it is cold and miserable outside I will sit tight and look through job adds, but I am not going to be stuck like this in the spring/summer. I have even checked my pension and savings to see if I could 'retire' or cut my hours.

Same situation of possible redundancy this year, combined with being tired, cold and fed up of grey skies.

I can't seem to get motivated this week at all

oh god, me. And I really love my job. It's a job that is busy in waves, and this next five weeks or so are the busiest of the year and while I can usually motivate myself to throw myself into long weeks and lots of work... it's so hard this week. I've had four really productive days and today has been very difficult - it's not that I haven't got stuff done but I know I could have done more.
I hate moaning about it because it's a really great job and it's not exactly saving lives or anything but... bleurgh. I'm tired and it's grey and cold.

There are times when I enjoy my job, but other times when it’s awful. I’m stuck with it for now for personal reasons, but even if I moved, I can’t imagine finding a job I really love in my fifties. That I still have 14 years to go before retirement seems almost unbearable right now. It will be better when the better weather comes though.

@Lolabray I feel the same, very demotivated at the moment but getting IVF later in the month so feel like I have other things on my mind and not in the position to change careers. Looking forward to being more career focussed when that's all over as feeling so meh this week...

@Lolabray. I feel the same. I finished mat leave for our last baby 18months ago and now I just feel like ‘Christ is this it now for the next 30years’. It’s a shame you can’t get paid puppy leave or new goldfish leave to break it up a bit.
I keep thinking I should save up so that I can take a long chunk of unpaid leave every five years or so to break it up…..

I also think I there is no job that is going to be good every day (otherwise it’d be called that fun thing you do for money not ‘work’) but if you have more rubbish days than Good it’s probably worth moving as you spend a lot of your life there…

would anyone mind sharing what they do? I am 33, degree educated but with a humanities degree do didnt point me in any direction. Took various entry level admin roles in london post uni and just sort of moved about until i got to a comfortable salary level.. now I am seriously feeling like i have F**ked up because if i am to have a child i have no career per se to go back to. I am having serious anxiety about all this at the moment.. career vs job vs really anticipating my whole life i would be a SAHM..woo vent. sorry!

@Fedupatforty your comment about saving up for career breaks reminded me of this really interesting Ted talk about mini-retirements you may be interested in listening to

From the experience with my team, this seems to be especially prevalent this year due to the fact that we are just so extremely burnt out from last year, in a way that we’ve never been before. I’m hoping my motivation kicks in on Monday! (Also contemplating a complete career change which doesn’t help lol).

Yeah I'm struggling. I came back from mat leave into a new role in autumn, it's so much harder with much trickier stakeholders and I've had some not great feedback. It's not all bad, just points I now need to get to grip with. Overall I'm knackered and disheartened and had a little cry earlier.

Ooh thanks @LondonladyTTC I’ll have look