Working through life issues means dealing with things that come up in your life. It means finding solutions to problems and making them work. It also means changing and growing.
If you have problems in your career or social life, if you have any life issues at all, and you work through them your life will be improved. You’ll no longer have the issues. You’ll never be completely free of them but lessening them will be good for you.
There are many ways to work through your life issues. It often helps to have someone to talk things over with. Friends are good for this because they’ll listen and provide advice.
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 working through life issues. 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.
Working Through Life Issues
- Applying for jobs. This is frustrating, and extremely disheartening, because I’ve been doing this for months and months on end with no results. I’ve been jobless for almost a year after relocating interstate, it seems that none of these employers want someone with ten years’ experience, and it’s making every single aspect of life harder.
- At work the most frustrating thing has been a situation that has been going on that has directly affected my coworkers and friends. The most frustrating thing is that I can offer my opinion or advice but not make any real changes. The same goes for my personal life. My friends are going through difficult situations and I am here to offer help in any way but am unable to fix the situation.
- Doing work that doesn’t have anything to do with what I’m trying to achieve or with my future. I like to learn but if its not a lesson on life or its just put out there to change my mind, then its in the way of my future goals and that is a waste of time.
- Family issues and areas of life effecting my focus and business time. Frustrating because I am already easily distracted and am working on building a great new focus ethic but all the areas of life are really important to me, it’s just been a time when lots is going on, I miss the flow.
- Having to clean up for my flatmate over and over again because she’s too busy doing nothing. Cleaning out the drain because she leaves hair in the shower, stepping over all the recycling because I refuse to take it out AGAIN, having to clean one of her dirty knives because literally every single knife is dirty (and hers). I can’t stand how high and mighty she pretends to be, how perfect she pretends her life is, but when no one is looking, she’s a complete mess. She’s all talk and no action. That’s why I can’t stand her at work either. She would rather publicly post online how excited and passionate she is about things than to actually do the hard work and let your work speak for itself.
- How to get my life out of a rut. Ever since we moved to Alberta, we have been just living in the moment and not preparing for the rest of our lives. I am stuck at a job that I don’t want to be and feel that I can’t do anything else so I am just supposed to live with it.
- I am currently looking for work. I am frustrated because I left my old job for a whole new way of life yet after taking a 6 month break traveling I am searching for work in the same industry again. I am worried I will end up feeling trapped in a world I dislike again.
- I am easy and quick learning will to learn an explore new things I get along with others I can work independently are with others Im very helpful I love to work and I love a lot of hours and I have good communication skills I DON’T discuss my outside personal life on the job I’m very professional an confidence about my work I DON’T have a problem taking criticism. And I’m easy to get along with I have a great personality. And I love a challenge . I DON’T have a problem asking for help if I don’t understand but in some situations I’m a little shy.
- I find the most frustrating time in my life to be the time when I have a group task and I cannot get it done because my group member holds the data and is not working. I find this most frustrating because I have no power to be able to finish my work. I have to wait and rely on another person.
- I had to tell my parents that I am putting off my job search for after I graduate in order to take a month-long road trip to the West coast. It was difficult because I feel as though they might worry that I will not get a job relating to my field when I come home from the road trip and I will simply be a waitress for the rest of my life.
- I had to work and sort out my love life simultaneously. After a recent break up, I am still very much in contact with my one-time serious ex boyfriend. While this has no direct impact on my studying for exams, after I get home after a 12 hour day at the library, and find myself pondering incessantly on the “but-ifs” and “what-ifs”. It is draining and tends to rain down on the sense of achievement I feel, after a good, hard day of work.
- I need to finish my data analysis for my master’s theses but, I can’t seem to focus on it. It is the most immediate task at hand, though. It was frustrating because I can’t really focus my mind and heart in it. I feel that it is not directly connected to my future life… since up to now, I can’t seem to find the right job for me… I thought the MS degree could help me, but it seems that I am having the same difficulty looking for a job just like before.
- I think finding the direction I want to go into to be really frustrating. I have had ideas of what I want to do, but nothing seems to work out the way I ideally would like it to. I am not super controlling, but it seems like life at the moment is at a standstill, and this is driving me crazy.
- I want to discover where my passion lies so that I can pursue it for a happy and fulfilling life, I feel life is full of opportunities; you just need to find the right opportunity and act on it. I am not quite happy in my current job and therefore looking for some soul searching. My current job doesn’t quite excite me and therefore its a challenge to discover my passion on one hand and look for another similar job , in the other hand. I need to be financially independent before I discover what I actually want to do in life.
- I want to engage myself in educating parents and children about the long term importance of grooming children to respect value systems, patience, hard work and empathizing with others, especially children from poor background. Parents are pushing their children to excel in things which are not their natural liking even at the cost of compromising moral and ethical values in life. It was frustrating for me to be unable to do any thing about my seniors not working honestly and giving their best ability to the organization in which we work.
- I was in sales and I am not a sales person. I stayed for over 14 years because I loved my clients. Meeting with, connecting and helping them was the best part of my job…making a difference in their life. However, I no longer felt happiness in my industry, health insurance sales.
- I;ve had to take over my moms duties and mine as well. its very frustrating because i’m still a student and I have homework. I also have a social life, but because my moms on vacation, I have to cook, clean, wake up earlier, pack lunches, as well as my own things to do like homework, read, and sleep.
- I’m currently setting up a new online business, together with a partner who shares my passion for learning, positive thinking and writing, as well as a drive to offer feadible and easily applicable guidance in certain areas of our existence (such as relationships, parenting and so on). While I have always had a variety of interests and passions, im finding it particularly hard to narrow my list to just one for the time being, so that I can focus on and develop it into a product that is trully valuable and helpful and that can bring an income. What are your thoughts on this? Thank you. Regarding frustrations, I find it very hard to communicate to my life partner, as he is going through a very stressful time. This has been going in for a long time and it is almost impossible to find a right time to talk these days. There seems to be no time and no right time, any attempt to open significant topics triggers massive anger, insecurity and an avalanche of undeserved (i feel) accusations. While I read a lot on relationships, and we do have a long and meaningful relation that we both cherish, it is a challenge to work through the tension nowadays. Sending written messages seems to help sometimes, as it gives better control of what comes out of our heads:)
- Is it too late go change? I quit my job after two years of being exploited, but not before having a new job lined up. They are trying to get me to come back, but I can not. The reasons for leaving are many and varied and I’m not interested in debating it when my mind couldn’t even be changed if they tried. So I ignore them and continue on to a new chapter of my life.
- It’s frustrating to not be able to work and also, it bothers me when I get a feedback that I have low self esteem and I’m not confident in my personal life. I would like to be more fearless, and less lethargic and try to find what I like and what my hobbies are.
- It’s not my job bothering it’s just me, I am making myself annoyed. I used to have this dreams and used to know all I wanted and get excited about everything and even loose hours of sleep thinking about how successful I would be if I kept going through the path I was on, but a year ago all of that changed, it’s like I am not the same anymore, I am confused about my future and the thing is that I thought I knew what I was going to do and be, but suddenly something changed and now I don’t know what I am going to do with my life and I don’t get that thing I said before that I would loose hours of sleep thinking about how it would all end up for me, and it’s frustrating because I wasn’t like that and I miss that part of me that I don’t know where it has gone. It used to like being challenged but now I don’t, I used to be very optimistic and I thought I was really smart but now I have realized that I am not.
- Look for a job, and the reason why is because I feel at this stage in my life I should be established in a job, I am 21 and it just frustrates me because I want to get married and I know that the man needs to provide for his family
- My colleagues and friends find a best person and a great guy at work, however I have not still achieved the desired goals and stability in life. I am confused. I am not comfortable working under anyone, but till date not succeeded in business. I generate ideas however capex and opex ruin me in debt and I go for a job to pay that debt. Once again I am into business and this time do not want to fail.
- My current job can be exasperating; other life responsibilities come into play, and I am unable to do everything. I am easily stressed and concerned that I am not fulfilling my responsibilities enough, so when I fall back onto another obligation, such as my current job, I am full of weariness.
- Searching for a new job and never hearing back. Its effecting my self esteem, how I interact with others, and participate in life in general. Determining how to get beyond this point of not having control of the situation, but still understanding or seeing that I have value, outside of not being acknowledged.
- The current most frustrating thing is trying to make decisions. Big life decisions about where to work or if to apply for a certain job. And smaller things like should I see extended family or go to the rodeo. Decision making is quite overwhelming to me. I believe this is because I don’t want to make the “wrong” decisions.
- The most frustrating thing for the recent days on my life might be; I have to decide in the soonest to go back to the professional life, after ten years self-employement and I am a little bit anxious of not to decide of which department and position would be more appropriate for me.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to deal with in the past few days involves my Mom and Grandma. Every time I see them, they always ask me to do something. It may be paperwork for them, the dishes at their home or even cutting their nails. I have a busy life as it is and it frustrates me that they ask me to drive to their home to do these tasks when my unemployed older brother lives with them and does not do anything at home. I can’t remember the last time I went to their home and I was just able to sit and talk with them. Within minutes of arriving, I am always asked to do something.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to do lately is take in my brother because our parents have washed their hands of him and expect him to live on the streets. Bear in mind I do not have the room or the money to care for him. I barely have enough money to care for my own family. My household currently only has one vehicle that my fiance takes to work everyday so I can not even spend the day taking him to look for jobs or down to social services to get help for himself. It is very frustrating to have no help and not be able to do the things needed and feel like your jus going through the motions everyday instead of living it. I want more from life than that.
- The most frustrating thing in my life is about my 12th class academics performance but later knowing that mistakes which I have done ..i just put my effort and hardwork to overcome that failure and do not repeat that same mistakes in the future .Because my hardwork I got good academics performance in the graduation.
- This week I’ve had to deal with a few issues with friends and having to figure out when I can take time off as well as how to save money. Financial woes are always stressful and dealing with that on top of being overwhelmed with work and life is obviously frustrating. But that’s just life.
- To not be able to do work, just stay at home and do nothing really makes me feel frustrated. I feel like I need to do something in my life other than just stay at home, unemployed. I want to be on the outside, to do things, to make my life meaningful not just to me but to my mother.
- Trying to sort out life. Selling a home, finding a new job, finding time to exercise and eat right. It all adds into one large stress ball and it continues rolling. It’s frustrating because I know I can do all of the things I need to just the motivation isn’t there. How do I find motivation?