When you’re living the life you enjoy, you are sure to have the right kinds of friends around and are having fun all around. This simply means having a good time, with people you care about. With the right planning and effort, you can have both things at once.
But how can you achieve this on your own? By keeping your career separate from your fun and friendship, although giving both equal attention for ultimate success. Don’t ignore them, but don’t mix them up either.
Some people I think struggle with being able to have a fun fulfilling time away from work, without intertwining the two. They should be separate but equally important.
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 friendships and fun. 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.
Friendships and Fun
- Finish a number of tasks without having a break. This was frustrating because I knew I needed to stay on top of these things in order to complete the tasks on time but I also knew that there was going to be a significant period where I needed to sacrifice time with friends and family.
- Had to wait to come back up to school because my friend told me we where leaving at 6 pm, but it got pushed back to 10 pm. Which kept me from going to a concert with my family, as well as me having to tell my friend who was coming up with me this week that we where leaving late because of my friend. And she hates waiting or bad surprises, which caused me to become a little irritated.
- I cannot complete that is given to me at the deadline.at last I had taking decision to draw myself from the task. I found out there are many obstacle that prevent me to finish the task.however,my friend take my place but she could complete the task at the given time. It was frustrating because I was give up to fast.
- I get frustrated when I’m not doing something valuable. I don’t like being steady. The best thing that brings fulfillment to me is by helping others in making their dreams come true. I like to see my friends and family happy, and I want to be part of that happiness. There’s so many things I want to try to do. My greatest dream in life is to travel different places, creating memories with my closest friends and of course with my family.
- I had to deal with my flatmate constantly locking the door and hence locking me out. When I tried confronting her she was stubborn, she didn’t put forward any decent argument and was aggressive. We stay at a well-off area and the door is at a secluded location. Therefore there is no reason for her to lock it after me, when I’m gone to do laundry for 5 minutes. It frustrates me as it adds to the image of her being unfriendly, uncompromising, hostile, quiet and frankly creepy.
- I had to do a presentation as part of an English class I am taking. I was VERY nervous to speak in public. I got very flustered while speaking and I just said some random stuff that wasnt even relevant or coherent, even though I practiced and studied the material! I am just frustrated with myself for not being able to match the standards the teachers or friends have of me.
- I had to go to a farm with one of my friends and her adventurous family and I’m more of an indoor read a book in my apartment in the warm city and I had to spend my weekend on a farm with adventurous and loud people. I was out of my place which is frustrating because I was uncomfortable , I was outside in the cold mosquito and horsefly-filled farm which is frustrating because I hate every single one of those details and they made me go on a rope swing which gave me a black eye…. I do not enjoy black eyes.
- I had to go to this science trip and everywhere had cues every where so we cued up and every time we were near the front my friend wud drag me out the cue and say come on let’s go somewhere else then moans she never chose anything when she dragged me where she wanted and I didn’t get do do anything I wanted to do
- I have a mid term test abut two weeks ago and it was very frustrating since I have no one to actually help me study and I have a hard time on understanding the teachers at school. The pressure of the fact that my friends can ace on everything they did adds more stress to it. I ended up with not-a-very-good-even-near-bad grades…
- I once had to decide if the friend who had been in my life was worth keeping. He and I had various disputes which at the time seemed to cloud over everything. I thought many times how I could let someone walk over me. Finally I gained my strength and set the rules. I am a person of rules and boundaries that must be followed. No more walking over me. Around or beside, nothing else.
- In the past few days I had to deal with one of my housemates who was not being very kind. She has been very arrogant towards me and my other friends. I confronted her about it and asked her to please stop being arrogant. Although she did not take that to the best of her ability I do feel like I handled the situation correctly.
- My dad knocked up a stripper and asked for my advice and council about it. My parents are divorced but remain friends, and my moms fiance and my dad love to hang out together. They call each other brother husbands. Well what was frustrating about all that is that my parents got into a huge fight and asked me to mediate it. For some reason I’ve had the parental roll since I was a small child. My new boss is leaving me by myself for a week to go to Greece and wants me to run the entire business myself. Im a little stressed about that too. I have an interesting life, sorry for over sharing.
- My friend is a really smart, beautiful and athletic person but she doesn’t use those skills to her advantage and puts them to waste. it is frustrating because I see what he could be and she doesn’t want to take the time to use those skills and thinks if she does she will fail but I know she won’t.
- When people cannot see the right path. People that are only in it for their personal gain can drive me crazy. I need people to see past things a little more clearly. I cannot live in the doldrums, and I do not want to leave my close friends there. I hurt for them when they go through pain, but at the same time I cannot believe they still made the choice despite knowing what was right in front of them. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. Some people cannot learn from their repetitive mistakes. This can frustrate me. At times, it frustrates me daily.