First, you must accurately understand the concept of work life to be able to know how to be happy and successful in work life. Without accurate understanding, you may not be able to address the root cause of problems and may continue to have problems or even aggravate the situation.
There can be two essential components to consider for work life. One is the financial component and the other is the component of the pursuit of values. Most of us work to earn a living and to pursue values of life. If you think that you are happy and successful in work life, it means that you are paid enough or you are pursuing certain values or both.
Some people focus more on financial component and others more on the component of the pursuit of values. Of course, you may change your focus as you progress at work. Whichever your focus is, you need to build experience and knowledge to achieve more at work in your future. Experience and knowledge may vary depending on what you and your employer pursue at work.
As you build and accumulate new knowledge and experience at work, you necessarily experience stress. When you have a clear goal regarding either of the two components, you can easily heal stress each time it occurs. When you do not, your stress may continue and be accumulated. You may feel that you have problems of relationships, work environment, or work itself, but the root cause is the psychological condition in which you cannot heal stress generated from work.
One important aspect of your perception of problems at work is relationships at the work place. People you meet at work pursue their own goals of financial achievement or pursuit of life values. It must be clearly understood that you do not interact with them to share emotions or personal happiness. You are interacting with people at work for practical purposes, which may vary for every individual. You should not get your emotions involved in relationships at work, be it positive or negative. You may lose your goals at work and develop psychological problems when you are confused between work relationships and personal relationships.
When you aim for financial achievement at work but feel that you are seriously underpaid for your work, you necessarily develop problems since your major goal for working cannot be achieved. In such cases, you must find some ways to raise your pay such as negotiating for a raise or persuading the employer regarding the value of your work. Some people may decide to keep the job thinking that the pay supports and promotes happiness of family and this idea may provide the basis for healing.
When you feel that you are treated unfairly at work and decide to make efforts to change the situation, you are considered to be pursuing the value of equality at the work place instead of financial achievement. People may think that you are not fit to stay at the work place since you do not like the current situation, but you are actually pursuing your value at work, which is to change the work environment. However, problems may occur when your pursuit of value contradicts the pursuit of value of other people at your work place.
Some people work for both the financial achievement and the pursuit of values of life simultaneously. Then, it is more likely to cause problems since meeting both goals is less feasible, and then, more stress may be generated. On the other hand, when you work for only one component of the two, you are likely to get less stress and the other is likely to follow as you progress. Therefore, it is recommended that you aim for achievement in only one component.
Above all, perceiving human relationships at work as relationships for practical purposes is the most important aspect from the perspective of psychology. This perception will let you focus on achieving your goal at work without accumulating stress and protect you from unnecessary conflicts and difficulties.
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