Business and work life are ways that people make enough money to survive during their non-work life. Mostly, business and work life are associated with a 9am-5pm job where people go to some common work place in order to complete common tasks. For example, I am a teacher, so my work life takes place during the hours of 8:30 am – 3:30 pm in a school building with other teachers all working towards bettering education for children. Business and work life are separate from personal life, which includes things like hobbies and friends and social activities.
Someone can improve their career or person life by making it connected to things that they enjoy doing or discussing in their personal life. For example, if someone enjoys taking risks and managing money in their personal time, then they should look for a job as in stocks or finance. This will help them enjoy their work time as much as possible so that they are happy when they go into work for 8 hours a day. Otherwise, the stress of the job can impact your personal life and start effecting all areas of your life so that you become miserable outside of the 9-5 business hours.
My advice would be to start at any job that you are offered, but keep your doors open for changing careers. Whenever you are ready to enter the work force, take what is available so that you can start making money and gaining professional experience/references for your resume. While you are working at this job, start identifying what you like about the job and hate about the job and look for other careers that may interest you that can be similar or completely different from the job. It is very difficult to get a job you truly are passionate for without money and a good resume.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with business and work life. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Business
- Dealing with consultant pay issues that seem to compound and linger due to a convoluted process which involves a series of steps that are dependent on timely execution tasks by others. frustrating because I have to deal with the frustrated consultants who are not compensated on time, having to invest large sum of time and follow-up to ensure issues were resolved and communicating that to consultants. invoicing issues!!!
- Getting an appointment with an elusive but potentially lucrative client. I have made several phone calls at different intervals with little success. It’s been frustrating because reaching this decision maker could open a lot of opportunities and yet its not happening. I was running out of creative ideas to reach them!
- I have been a self employed commercial real estate developer of large scale retail projects for the past 23 years. I have been quite successful at sourcing and completing developments. Over 3 million square feet of built space. The Great Recession stopped new opportunities. The market is now waking up, and I am actively sourcing opportunities. The frustration is that there are fewer opportunities, I have less Captial resources with which to speculate, and consolidation of the industry makes it more difficult for the smaller entrepreneur to gain momentum …the principle of inertia seems to dominate …a body in motion tends to stay in motion and a body not in motion tends to stay not in motion….
- I ordered new postcards for my business to take to a conference, and they did not arrive in time. The company was very frustrating to deal with, did not properly publish their delivery times, and has not given me a satisfactory answer to my complaint. The company is out of integrity, which I hate, and I did not have the materials I counted on to promote my business at the conference, which means I may not get the business I was hoping for.
- If I will survive in my business. Times are really hard and a lot of obstacles show up unexpectedly. I live in Greece and business is really difficult, because we do not compete with the same terms as in other countries. People and fellow businessmen are totally untrained, demanding with no reason and bad, really bad payers. I Keep evolving by acquiring new knowledge, certification after certification, involvement after involvement, but right now just feels like i’am wasting my energy.
- I’m a receptionist and I have had to deal with students who get upset with me due to the prices of making copies or printing. It is frustrating because a sign is posted and visible that explains each charge the school I set. There is nothing that I can do to change the prices without compromising my position and yet the students displace their anger on to me.
- Planning a business/sales party. It is frustrating because it feels like a huge responsibility; I’ve invest a good amount into this venture and theres stress to make up for what I’ve put out and selling this product means being outgoing and talking to people more than usual and it’s all very taxing and challenging.