Why do we work?
I’ve been asking myself this question over the past few days, maybe for the past few weeks really, and I find it stems down to the fact that I’m not really that happy where I’m working at the moment.
Sure, I couldn’t really ask for a better bunch of people to work with, their all very friendly, there’s a good bit of office banter. All in all the time that I spend interacting with other staff I enjoy greatly.
But what about the actual work… I have to say, I don’t really enjoy it. I don’t enjoy searching through knowledge bases for answers for other people, I don’t enjoy logging bugs that I know will most likly never get fixed, I don’t like answering insanely fiddly questions that end up being impossible to solve. That’s what a lot of my work is like from day to day, and I don’t enjoy it.
What else? Money? I’m not sure the amount that my employer renumerates me with each month is enough to make me stick at doing something I don’t enjoy, I don’t particularly believe I’m on what I should be for the wokr that I do.
I also know that when one of the consultants leaves at end of July I’m going to have to take a more proactive role with one of the other members of staff, it’s hastle I could do without.
I think that I need my work to interest me, or not to challenge me at all. I don’t really enjoy working hard on something that is not interesting. Now I know many people will say “Duh”, and say just get on with it. But what I’m doing atm, really isn’t for me.
I’ve decided that I’m going to start looking about at other job opertunities, I’ve found a job at Lancaster University that I feel I might enjoy more then my current position, so I am going to apply for that.
It’s more money, doing systems admin and it would give me the opertunity to move out of home and finaly get my own place set up.
Hmmm, unsettled times,
P.