Entering in the 20,000th entry for the gigantic accounting spreadsheet? Doing yet another TPS report? CHanging the font color for yet another over-bearing project manager? These are the kinds of things that can not only drive you crazy but also make your day more boring than you’d probably like to bear.
The first couple of months at a new job are always full of the excitement that accompanies the challenge of figuring out new people, new products, new environments, and new customers. But what happens when this newness dwindles away into a sea of boring nothingness? This is all too common.
Thousands of test takers were asked a little bit about themselves before diving into the strengths test. Part of this is to help center their minds around the reason they are taking the test, but also to get them to get into the deep-contemplation mode before diving into the questions. Here’s what they were asked:
Describe what you feel is the most frustrating thing about your current job.
Why Understand People’s Frustrations?
It isn’t until we begin to understand what makes our daily life harder that we begin to understand what we need to change in our life, work, or relationships. By getting a better understanding of what make life more challenging, I can begin to help folks with the problems that matter most to them.
I am seeking understanding, ideas, and focused attention on making valuable change in the world. Can you see some use from this information, too?
List of Workplace Frustrations – Part 3 of 10
- Having people understand that if am trying to help them and if am only there to help them, so they can intern help me.
- Not know what I want to do when I grow up
- What is my calling.
- No leadership in upper management.
- It would be time
- I feel like I am doing the same thing over and over.
- How my family would be?
- Not being an expert
- Dealing with a lot of personalities.
- My memory and lack of attention to detail
- When any work is not going as per my schedule then if become frustrated.
- How do I know if the career I choose is the right one?
- How to help young people who struggle with school get on a strong path.
- I feel that I sometimes have to do things that are irrelevant.
- Frustrated by people not following or able to take direction
- Lack of acknowledgment for doing a good job
- Co-workers have poor skills and poor work ethic. mess us projects and tasks I have to clean up.
- My boss doesn’t know what I really do so has to question everything
- What is life?
- No structure, management is horrendous and has a definite agenda. My job is completely meaningless and unfulfilling.
- I hate stagnancy. My job offers no exciting challenges. There is less scope of creativity to be showcased. I don’t find bigger and pragmatic challenges there.
- People continually checking on me to make sure I’m ok. Let me do my job and if I have questions that I can’t figure out, I’ll ask.
- Working on the dementia and Alzheimer’s unit. I am constantly getting cursed out or getting beat up by the patients or breaking up a fight between the patients.
- It is very Slow pace at times & I like to be on the move to make work more exciting.
- I want to move up in life
- When if got new kind of problem which never happened before
- I feel trapped and bored at my current job. I feel like I have more leadership qualities that are not being utilized in my current position.
- That we get laid off in the winter time.
- Self-centeredness
- Too boring. Lack of motivation. Not open to new ideas. Bad pay
- It doesn’t challenge me. I want to use my skills to solve problems and create projects.
- Not interesting, no innovation, too much routine.
- Too many deadlines
- Lazy workers.
- I am bored with my work. I don’t have that excited feeling and have to force myself to get things done. My supervisor does not help because he is not a good leader, is hardly around, and does not seem to do anything.
- People not being as excited as I am with an idea
- I had wanted to be an architect but currently if couldn’t get to do the course but am rather offering computer science. I want to know if its possible after my 4 year in school if can do my masters into architecture….
- When people aren’t appreciative of what I’m doing for them.
- No time to get things done
- Dealing with people that don’t want to work or that are lazy
- I want to know the exact path for further studies by which if can establish myself
- I am very passionate about my destination and job but sometime if am very much anxious my previous result, family expectation and job future.
- Translate into skills
- Grad student and don’t know yet who my advisor will be.
- No time for own studies.
- Trying to write on a subject that I didn’t completely understand
- The apathy.
- Well as if am a student in high school, if feel like the hardest bit is putting effort into doing homework as its pointless and time consuming.
- I’m a new solo mom and don’t know how to go about a career and take care of my son at the same time so that if will be successful at doing both.
- I have no opportunity to advance and need a challenge.
- What should I do for a career?
- I wish for respect. At my current job the people seem so mean to each other. It looks like they have lost the fire in them self’s.
- Repetition is one thing that I am frustrated with. I need new challenges in life to keep me excited.
- Backstabbing and not taking responsibility for errors or mistakes.
- Am I going to be successful?
- Unorganized
- I’m under-employed. I have an engineering physics degree, but instead of doing research and science and learning, I’m doing simple IT. And I’m making less now than I did as an intern in college!
- Not having a clear direction of where and what I should do and go.
- Doing the same thing virtually everyday through the month and the year.
- Not enough time to do everything
- Little pay for long hours
- Getting the facility open.
- What should I do
- Lack of direction and week management
- Poor Leadership and planning. Too Political.
- I do think that the lack of teamwork and the extreme ambition to overcome a job-partner are the most frustrating in my modest opinion.
- Not knowing enough to get my ideas through to completion. Not enough support from my colleagues, and lack of explanation for my obstacles.
- Nothing, as I am retired and doing many things.
- Right now the most frustrating part is that it takes me away from my family. I also wish I had more time for personal development with in my field.
- Too much work little time.
- No consistency
- The most frustrating thing about my job is not knowing where the product is at
- Lack of technical understanding of the services my company provides, and limited feedback limit opportunity for growth.
- I have absolutely no idea what is expected of me. Every time I think I figure it out, my boss tells me I’m wrong. I feel like a failure every single day. I have two college degrees, have had success in every other job I’ve had, so I don’t really know what to do about this. Normally I am a positive person, and can move past negativity easily, but lately I feel as if I’m going to crack at any second.
- I am a stay at home mom, looking to do more.
- I feel I am under pressure and burn out by long hours of work. I don’t have any confidence anymore. I want to stop working for others.
- No job role defined
- The most frustrating thing about a job is when you’re given direct direction of what needs to be done
These are insights into the go-getters out there. These are insights into the people that you work with, work for you, and lead you. Have you learned anything from this mega list of work-place frustrations?
Share your own comments or stories of frustration in the comments below, please.