Helping other people is caring for your fellow man. However, it can be self-serving. You may sacrifice something of your own to help others. Sometimes people take advantage of caring people.
You may find helping someone is truly what you want to do in life. You may find that you are particularly good at a career involved with helping people. When you find a career you enjoy, it’s easier to stay dedicated and productive.
It is important to help other people who are less fortunate than you. It can bring a sense of fulfillment in life to help someone who is not in a situation to help themselves. It is important to not let others take advantage of you.
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 helping other people. 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.
Helping Other People
- I do not like trusting people only to find out it was all a lie.
- It was frustrating to tell some people close to me what was truly bothering me.
- Gave my 30 day notice to move, but the people in my apt complex are idiots.
- Talking at work. Some people really do believe the world really revolves around them only
- To deal with untruthful incompetent people. I had purchased a product and service and when these products and services did not perform as promised I was made to feel that I was in the wrong for asking to have the matter rectified. I felt humiliated and conned
- The most frustrating thing I had to do in the past is dealing with other people attitudes.
- Dealing with people who do not want to reason,, I like to be able to reason things out not just ignore
- I dislike being judged. It is frustrating especially coming from people who do not know you at all.
- Finding work. It is frustrating because people who delegate work do not take responsibility and give it to the employee, who does not have any power.
- Inability of people to find out the true needs of the customer and fulfill those desires.
- Checking other people’s work. Because they hadn’t devoted enough thought to it and had no pride or embarrassment wrt to the output. Feel like I waste my time.
- I often do not get to convince someone or a group of people to do an activity
- People and the fact that they do not have work ethic
- Deal with people who are ruled by emotion and people that don’t like to think for themselves. It’s truly annoying.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to do was socialize with a group of people for an extended period of time, because I am not a very social person.
- Pick the the slack for other people. they should have the drive to perform at there best
- I had to go to work and meet new people. This was frustrating because i don’t speak the language that they are speaking and it is hard to communicate with them. Besides that, I don’t know how to mix with people.
- I hate when people do not explain why they do something or why they want me to do something, because it is an unknown directive and has questionable motives.
- When people come and bug me during my alone time because it’s the only time I get to relax and watch my series
- Working with new people that I haven’t met in a topic I wasn’t too sure of
- I had to deal with incompetent people at work who were getting in the way of work being done.
- Life insurances work was the most frustrating thing i has done in recent time. I could not sell the plans by lieing to people.
- Trying to get people to understand the way I want to do things without being all over the place about it.
- I do not like it when people say its to hard or i don’t want to try things that are new or challenging. I also don’t like people who are always late
- I sometimes do more hard work, than smart work and i see people arund me get away easily with their smart work, while i slog with dum hard work.
- Dealing with people who don’t take responsibility for their own work.
- The people are always so noisy and i have a hard time understanding what i am doing when i am suppose to do it and getting my work down is a very difficult trait that i seem to posses.
- Going through abuse and torture from people who hate me. Dealing with hurtful situations.
- Pleasing people. some people come to me with problems and expect me to have answers. I tell them things but they don’t seem to take any of it in.
- Shopping in a crowded store. I hate shopping and I hate it when slow people get in my way
- Some people who didn`t do well with me. It made me discoraged little, but it is okay now.
- Being around people who don’t encourage, enhance, or add value to my life. It leave me feeling undervalued, unappreciated for my talents, and looking for something better.
- Its frustrating to see people take your care and affection for granted for so long and you realize it only after so many years of emotional exploitation.
- Not being able to make other people think that they not have the reason about something, but neither me.
- People not taking responsibility for their own actions. People “passing the buck”
- Trying to find a positive way to motivate the people on my committees.
- People are stupid. I hate explaining easy things too stupid people.
- Cant and don’t understand why people try harder not to work than it would to just do it
- To cook food in kitchen because i don’t like interruption of unwanted people instead of my mother
- It’s frustrating to work with people on an assignment when they don’t want to do it because the work load that was supposed to be split up by a few people now becomes an enormous workload for one person.
- Work at a retail store. This job does not allow me to truly interact with people. I am constantly rearranging items to find a place for the new stock arriving.
- Convince people that the sickness or illness you have is real and that you have it !
- Dealing with lowly trained people who are incharge of something like rostering..
- Not reaching on a conclusion,because people look upto me for solutions
- I feel the most frustrating thing about my current job is that I expect people to have the same drive and.dedication. as we all know that is not the case.
- Really the only thing that frustrates me is traffic and people who drive slowly in the passing lane.
- Try to get agreement on a facilities plan. The only opinion people had was do not affect my group. Yet the plan will affect everyone and there must be some leeway in constraints if we are to be successful.
- Working in an extremly busy crowd. Too many people to be able to communicate and work properly
- I had to deal with people that were rude and homophobic and i had anxiety issues
- I work as a bus driver and the most frustrating thing that I’ve had to deal with is customer service. I get a lot of people who think that they know how to do my job better than me and oftentimes it causes me to be stressed out.
- Trying to shake someone off. i didn’t want people to think that i was a horrible person. i was afraid of what others might think of me.
- I tried to bear different mood swings of different people and did not say anything for their respect.
- Deal with people. Because I don’t like people. Also because I can get really mad really easily and I think everyone are idiots.
- It frustrates me when people find excuses when they are wrong instead of following up and making sure things are clear.
- People being too demanding for the time I have and lazy coworkers
- How people sees me as individual? Am I a warm and reliable person for them? is my capability is good enough to help them? when I have to persuade people to stay although they want to go..
- I can’t solve a problem that seems to be easy for other people.
- Lack of quick response to an issue that affects how well I can help people at work.
- Switching from a night schedule at work to a day schedule has been difficult because traffic is very frustrating to me. I cannot tolerate peoples’ inability to make decisions quickly, not to mention the idiotic things people do while driving. I did not have to deal with that at night.
- Not having direction from the people that are supposed to be directing me in my job.
- Dealing with people who don’t utilize the tools provided to them
- For for other people, being told what to do. Sitting around all day.
- Trying to get people to understand my reasoning, because I know that sometimes I almost want to demand things, but it’s all in peoples best interest
- Managing something and at the end time when people don’t support me. That’s when I get frustrated.
- Working with a group of people, there is social loafing in groups
- Prepare fir a corporate visit that most people were sure would not happen
- To manage emotions of other people, give them advice yet not seem to know it all
- Asking people to do their job when you are inferior to them
- Watch other people succeed and not know how to get where they are
- Try to delagate o try to tell people what they have to do
- Wait on people that made a plan to be somewhere at a certain time. If you make a plan to be some where be on time.
- Answer simple questions for other people. It is so frustrating that so many people appear to be unable to think for themselves, troubleshoot, problem solve.
- Jury duty. 100 people were taken out of their jobs to sit in a room and read and watch tv for 8 hours when they could have been working and put on call, and then come in for jury duty.
- Having to line up a new work assignment. Frustrating because of dealing with new people in an unexpected environment. Fear of the unknown.
- I sometimes struggle with other personality types and that is usually the most frustrating thing I face. It is frustrating because you can change a lot of things about the situations you are in, but you can not easily change the people.
- I am not a guy who frustrated easily…..but few times when people give me their opinions which i don’t need.
- I always wanna help people around me especially when they want me to especially people I admire a . l and respect
- Recently had to take a part-time job – very frustrating to stand on your feet in three hour stretches (with a 15 minute sitdown /, lunch) serving food samples to people who are half as intelligent and motivated as I am…
- How Hr is changing in my org, because people kept going over old ground and need details, couldn’t move on
- Moving my cousins stuff out of the garage and not having a ton of help. People just not doing what their told and being mean,
- Not much to do during work, feel like losing motivation to start working. People around have lots of things to do but I finished my work too early.
- Balancing diverse needs of different people in different areas of life. Switching between different things quickly is hard for me.
- Helping people who don’t want to help themselves, its just annoying
- Put up with people i dislike.this is because i simply don’t like them
- Participate in outreach for upcoming community event. Don’t like approaching strangers or being the one to initiate conversation. Afraid of people responding rudely or angerly, and triggers fear of rejection.
- When people I work with do not follow through on jobs, and do not put a lot of effort into things. Colleagues that try to get out of things annoy me.
- Excersise patience, waiting for people. Frustrating as I get anxious wasting my time.
- Responsibility of inviting people for programs . Reason : I don’t like to convince or influence others , people should be given information and they should decide and i don’t want to make them sit forcefully.
- Being thrown in the deep end. Knowing I am working with unreliable, dishonest people.
- The most frustrating thing about my current job is that I never know what my hrs will be. also people I work with r very lazy and expect the people at the bottom of the totem pole to do all the work.
- The indecisiveness of the people I work with. They are supposed to be my leaders .
- Accepting promotion at wrk. because i was the youngest and the people that started working there before me were against the promotion, Wanted the positon for themselfs.
- I don’t currently have a job but if i did, the most frustrating thing would be rude and arrogant people.
- People speaking a foreign language, that I cannot understand. It makes me feel excluded.
- Frustrated by people not following or able to take direction overwhelmed not organised enough
- The most frustrating thing for me is people at work not being thrutful with their employees .
- Attitudes,and disrespect.I feel if you treat people with respect they should do the same towards you as well.People who have attitudes that they are the best and are always right,nobody is perfect,you are who you are.you can better yourself or not.
- Agents who don’t do thier own work and clients who have unrealistic expectations and aren’t loyal. Bottom line, dealing with taxing, high maintenance people for little pay.
- Asking a bunch of people what they think my best qualities are.
- Watch people toss aside their responsibilities and leave them to me.
- I find it frustrating when people ask foolish questions when answers are obvious.
- When people ask for me to do their work because I have that ability. It makes me frustrated because they don’t even try.