Picture yourself at work. Is the image that comes to mind one of you actively engaged in an absorbing task? Or is it one of you feeling bored and counting down the hours until five o’clock? If it’s the latter, you could be stuck in a career rut.
“This can manifest in many ways,” says Jane Downes, a career coach and author of The Career Book - Help for the Restless Realist. “People can feel de-energised, restless, or as if they don’t belong in their organisation. They can get frustrated with their work, finding fault with everything. Some are on autopilot, coasting through their days while others are bored with a capital B, clocking in, clocking out, and clock watching in between.”
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