81,396 hours.

If we spend so much of life at work, how is life at work going?

According to the world’s workers, not well. Gallup finds 60% of people are emotionally detached at work and 19% are miserable

Now hold the data in your memory for a minute.

A couple of weeks ago, I came across this comment on LinkedIn. It's a woman trying to figure out how to go back to work after putting her career on standby for 5 years:

”I put my career 'on old' for the 5 years that I took on the responsibility of primary career for our two children.

Returning to work a couple of years ago, I then managed to get myself a role locally, to fit the school hours, thus allowing me to do the obligatory drop-off/pick-up routine.

Now that both kids are settled at school and getting older and more confident being by themselves (or their little mates), I'm looking at going back (gulp!) full-time and probably commuting regularly into London.

This means having to arrange 'breakfast-club' and 'after-school' club for both on most days.

It's somewhat of a paradox, as the extra income will invariably go on the additional cost of having someone else look after my kids, and I'll also have less time with them.

More employers should really look hard at offering remote (where possible) or at least a hybrid model for their employees.”

It's a lot, isn't it?

Career growth is just not on her goals right now, she's on survival mode.

And so many of us are. But it shouldn't be like this.

The way out of feeling miserable about your career is inside you.

Let's rock

 



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