Sometimes we don’t feel like going to work. We feel exhausted, stressed, and drained. This is actually a very common issue between workers. This happens for many reasons. These reasons may work themselves, issues at home, health problems, or expectations.
You don’t want to go to work because of the work environment
How many times have you complained or heard someone complain about work? Yes, that’s what I thought, many many times. It is hard to find a comfortable work environment but it’s not impossible. It may be the main reason you don’t want to go to work.
Working in a comfortable environment with a good, understanding manager and cooperative coworkers helps you enjoy work. You may not like your work itself but somehow it’s kind of fun to go to work because you’re friends with everyone there.
Work should be fun even if it’s exhausting you should search for fun within it. When a workplace environment is toxic and you cannot do anything about it, that’s what makes you unable to function properly and even hate going to work.
Toxic people are everywhere. Those who harm you judge you, gossip about you, and envy you are defined as toxic and you have to stay away from them.
What if you find these people in your workplace? Some people cope with the situation and some don’t. If your work is truly harming your mental health and physical health then quitting may be a solution. This means that you prioritize your mental and physical health. You can always try to find a new job before quitting to at least feel relieved and not stressed about the future.
You don’t want to go to work because your home life is hard.
A Stress-free home can increase your productivity at work. How awesome would it be to love your home with everything and everyone in it! This makes you cheerful and every day becomes a good start.
On the contrary, living in a home full of problems and stress affects your performance. If you are stressed and exhausted due to your personal life, your life at work will definitely be affected. This makes you overwhelmed with stress from every corner of your life and makes you not want to go to work.
Here are some tips and ideas that may help you separate between work and personal life:
- Set clear boundaries between the office and home.
- Use a separate work phone or laptop.
- Try not to take phone calls after your shift
- Take time off to clear your mind
- Try to avoid and be less chatty with those who caused the stress whether they are family, friends, or coworkers.
- Learn to say no when needed
- Work smarter not harder
You don’t want to work anymore because your health is suffering.
Work and health affect each other. There is a direct correlation between them. Work may affect your health positively and negatively and your health may affect your performance negatively and positively as well.
Let’s start with how work can affect your health negatively and positively. Too much work may be damaging to your physical and mental health. For example, working for long hours may lead to neck and back pain. It will also take most of your time so you won’t have enough time to heal.
On the other hand, a good, healthy job affects your health positively. It makes you happy and satisfied and it will provide you with enough money and time to do anything you want.
Work is important, but your health is more important. If your job is damaging your health, you should seek solutions because this will harm you and greatly affect your performance at work. Take time off, rest for as long as possible, and cleanse your mind and soul from all the negative thoughts and you’ll be fine.
You don’t want to go to work because it does not meet your expectations
We all have a dream job where we do what we like and everything is perfect. It is hard to find a job like this but it’s not impossible. When we look for a job we set certain expectations for our dream job. Here are some of the expectations people have:
- A healthy and comfortable work environment
- Cooperative coworkers
- Being appreciated and heard
- Stability
- The ability to grow
- Good communication
- Good pay
If you have a set of expectations and they all exist in your job except one or two it’s fine but what if the job does not meet all your expectations? You hate everything in this job! This is when you truly don’t want to go to work.
You may endure and continue because you are a hard worker who never gives up or you may look for another job. A job that you know for sure you’ll be very good at. A job that meets most or all of your expectations and makes you very productive, satisfied and pleased.
