How does one deal with being in a profession that you come to dislike more and more each day, when you started off with a love of it?
Unless you're earning a mint, change professions.How does one deal with being in a profession that you come to dislike more and more each day, when you started off with a love of it?
i would say to test your feelings. It could be a passing dissatisfaction that, if given in to, would cause great loss. Think about it rationally, but at the same time pray on it and plumb the depths of your soul and see whether there is another direction you(?) should be headed in. Survey it with a healthy dose of pragmatism, , but check your heart to make sure that baseless fear is not what is holding you back. Give it time and make sure (1Thess 5).How does one deal with being in a profession that you come to dislike more and more each day, when you started off with a love of it?
How does one deal with being in a profession that you come to dislike more and more each day, when you started off with a love of it?
How does one deal with being in a profession that you come to dislike more and more each day, when you started off with a love of it?
How does one deal with being in a profession that you come to dislike more and more each day, when you started off with a love of it?
Thank you all for your input, it is greatly appreciated. What's bothering me most right now is the new changes that have taken place (which I wasn't even there for, as I'm new to this ) but which have been changing things beyond recognition. At first I was idealistic about how things would go, but I've learned a lot within the past few years. But what I see happening now is just disappointing and disheartening and purely evil. I will continue to pray for God's guidance on this issue as He is the one who has placed on my heart to work in this field. It's literally going to take His own intervention for anything to change, but God is good and I know He has not steered me wrong and He will just continue to show me where and how I should go.
That's how I feel about social work. I was really quite disillusioned when I got into it because so many top-down policies restrict social work practice - we can't help people except what and how the government says we can, and the government has no idea how their policies affect the people we are trying to help. It's a mess and I'm angry that I was taught I have a voice - but I only have a voice if I don't want a job, since those who challenge the policies get fired and then we become those we are trying to help in the first place. But then I remember - if I can't be a hero to a whole demographic, I can try to support one at a time, and to that one, the work is meaningful.Thank you all for your input, it is greatly appreciated. What's bothering me most right now is the new changes that have taken place (which I wasn't even there for, as I'm new to this ) but which have been changing things beyond recognition. At first I was idealistic about how things would go, but I've learned a lot within the past few years. But what I see happening now is just disappointing and disheartening and purely evil. I will continue to pray for God's guidance on this issue as He is the one who has placed on my heart to work in this field. It's literally going to take His own intervention for anything to change, but God is good and I know He has not steered me wrong and He will just continue to show me where and how I should go.