This is an excerpt from a book entitled "The Joy of Not Working" I am currently reading. It made me smile because It sounds ....familiar? What do you think?
Here are some signals that your life is not in balance and you are probably in the wrong job:
1. You take more than your share of mental-health days due to headaches, tension, and other stress-related complaints.
2. You dread going to work practically every morning.
3. You don't like your present job because you can't express your creative side.
4. Your main interest in staying in your present job is to cope for another sixteen years until you can collect a good pension
5. You spend the first hour of work reading the boring sections of yesterday's newspaper.
6. You are married to your job; your life is all work and no play.
7. You can't remember when you last got excited about your job.
8. Your job is undermining your health with problems of insomnia, excessive stress, and no time to relax.
9. You daydream away over half of the workday and are just going through the motions the other half.
10. You keep trying, but to no avail, to convince yourself and others that your work is stimulating.
11. You have trouble concentrating and can't generate any new ideas for your projects and problems.
12. When you think about your workplace, you get depressed.
13. You long to be back in university or school, even though you didn't like attending either one.
14. At 5.00pm on Sunday afternoons, your stress level increases dramatically because of the thought that on Monday you have to go back to work.
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