Are you Living to Work? – Part 7
Escaping suppression
Is a lack of a job filling every aspect of your life? Is the job you have or the boss you have to endure making life horrid? Are your relationships difficult? Does it feel as if everything is coming down on top of you?
Too many people feel as if they are in a box, albeit a box in which they can move around, but not very far. The parameters are set and we can function within them. “We can function within them”, might be a very disillusioning phrase. Do you want to function or live?
Escaping suppression makes it clear the action rests with you, if this is how you feel. The guards rarely push the inmates through the door. The incarcerated have to plan and act to get out. In the work situation, occasionally there are redundancies and lay-offs which take the decision out of the ‘prisoner’s’ hands, or there is a voluntary release programme which is the catalyst to action. It is amazing how often I have been told by people forced from their job that it was the best thing that had happened to them and how they wish it had occurred earlier.
Redundancy does have the advantage of removing the need to justify the decision to leave to loved ones and friends.
So, are you so boxed in that you know a move is necessary for your sanity or, at least, your good humour? Is the prospect of doing something else a growing compulsion?
Rob Ball
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