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Oh, yes. Employment! What a fun little ride on the rollercoaster of life that is! Well, at least, it should be. After all, when you spend a large chunk of your day engaging in SOME form of work, it makes sense that it should be at least marginally enjoyable, right? Right! But what if that doesn’t seem feasible? What if the sheer presence of your boss alone is enough to make you cringe with utter repulsion, or the mere thought of returning to work on a Monday morning after the weekend fills you with a breed of terror usually reserved for killer bees?

My first suggestion would be to consider searching for another position, but I know that sometimes, this may not be entirely suitable. You might be waiting it out at your current location because, loathing aside, you know that it will look EXCELLLENT on your resume in six months’ time, or for the simple fact that uh, actually? Being able to buy a new dress each week is very, very splendid indeed. Regardless of your personal motivation for completing the work that you do, there are some simple ways to remedy employment dissatisfaction! Here’s how:

x Strike up a friendship! I have worked at a few different jobs. Most of them, thankfully, have been wonderful, but there have been a few exceptions where my total daily disdain lead me to begin purchasing weekly lottery tickets with the hope that I would surely hit the jackpot and be able to moonwalk my way out of the building by lunchtime - not particularly fabulous! Lottery tickets aside, what were my saving graces? The amazing people that I worked with! Instead of feeling miserable all the time, I focused on trying to have as much fun as possible and strike up friendships with the people that I was surrounded by each day. I would have lunch in a park with a girl from Marketing, where we’d eat delicious salads and laugh about the idea of hopping on one of the nearby trains and um, never returning. I’d send silly e-mails about things that I’d recently bought to a fashion-forward Advertising executive. Sometimes, all you need is a few special shake-ups with a few special people to make your day infinitely more tolerable!

x Learn as much as you can. What can you get out of your daily employment experience? Is there someone in your department who is an absolute graphic design virtuoso that might be able to teach you how to finally use Photoshop? Or someone who has the most mind-blowing recipe for quiche that you can thieve?

x Dress up. What can you wear to drastically improve the quality of your day? Why, how about donning an insanely gorgeous pair of high heels? Or a blow-dry? Or a headband with sequins on it? Or a divine spritz of fragrance? Just because your job might seem like pure crap-ola, it doesn’t mean that you’re not still a beautiful, capable, intelligent, kind and strong human being with an incredible sense of style who deserves to feel unstoppable!

x Make your home life as exquisite as you can. Cultivate items that you love, watch your favourite TV shows, plan scrumptious dinners (even if that involves ordering takeaway once a week!), invite your friends over and play music that sends you to another time and place. Having a sanctuary to retreat to each night after what feels like an eternity spent at the office is an essential, not a privilege! 

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How do you survive your working week, and most importantly, how do YOU feel about your occupation?  If it’s not particularly where you would like to be, what exactly can you do to change your circumstances so that it is?

xoxo

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