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Background

At first I thought I was the only one feeling this way but in the last few years I have been meeting a lot of unhappy and frustrated individuals. They are frustrated with working too hard and never having enough to pay the bills, save or put aside something for the medical bills you are sure to get from all that work-related stress!

If you are tired of:

• being underpaid
• working long hours – paid or unpaid
• long commutes and endless traffic
• never getting to spend any time with your friends and families
• unappreciative bosses.
• dealing with office politics
• staying in a job you hate – “just to pay the bills”
• feeling like life is passing you by

Why waste your time and short life being so unhappy and unfulfilled? 

It’s time for a change; read on…

 

Like me, there are those who for one reason or another have been forced to settle for a life or job we hate. We know we are not pursuing our calling so we feel unfulfilled; yet our responsibilities make us afraid or unwilling to change lanes so late in life.

The Gen Xers…

As most Gen Xers know – while we are grateful for the job and the life we have, we often feel stuck and unfulfilled. Our lives lack the excitement, fulfillment and purpose we dreamt about in our younger years. We know we have SETTLED. Life is often one big blah of boredom. We long for more; yet we need to be careful because we have responsibilities.

For most of us, growing up we were told to go to school, get good grades and then a good job.

It’s hard to believe but back in those days you hardly changed jobs but usually stayed with one company, sometimes moving up through the ranks as the older folks retired or passed on. You got incremental wage or salary increases but you never left; even if you didn’t like it you were expected to persevere. You were loyal to the company and the company was loyal to you. Until finally, one glorious day in your 60s you reached the grand old age of RETIREMENT. They gave you a gift, sometimes a nice send off ceremony depending on your level in the company. Then you went home to live off your small pension until you died.

That’s how it was for our parents  (the Baby Boomers) and that’s what they taught us.  It worked well for all concerned and they were satisfied.

But somewhere in the 80s the economic bottom dropped out of the Baby Boomers’ World and thus began the start of the only economic world our children (the Millennials) know and grew up in. Suddenly companies were no longer loyal, it was all about money and the bottom line. Mass layoffs began to take place. They could no longer depend on their workplaces for their livelihoods.  Old age became a fearful time because they either had no or inadequate Pension. And into this mess came us Gen Xers getting ready to finish school and or look for jobs.

Gen X; the “in-betweeners”. The often overlooked middle child, overlooked even by our own selves; caught in a changing world for which we were not prepared.

We were now responsible for supporting both:

• • our parents (the Baby Boomers) who were living longer often without the [economic] means to look after themselves because of the shorter work-life, less savings, lower pensions and rising subsistence and healthcare costs as a result of living longer.

and

• • our children (the Millenials), also without the [economic] means to look after themselves. They unfortunately found themselves in an uncaring world of work with little to no job prospects and low wages; often forced to take jobs for which they were spectacularly overqualified and underpaid.

In this situation, we found it difficult to take risks and were often forced to SETTLE because we couldn’t take the risk of losing a job which so many depended on. Of course it didn’t help that a lot of us were single and didn’t have the buffer of that second income.

If you can identify with any of the above and feel like in settling you have lost your soul, then I’m here to tell you that you can dust off and resurrect those long forgotten dreams.

As we say in my country Jamaica: “wah nuh dead, nuh call it duppy” or “wah nuh dead, nuh dash weh”. This is  literally translated as “what is not dead do not call it a ghost” or what is not dead do not throw it away”. It speaks to HOPE, saying do not let your current circumstances get you down; as long as there is life there is hope.

So let’s start dreaming again and believe that we can accomplish those dreams we once had, we are not too old to achieve and manifest our Divine Purpose and Destiny. We can still live a fulfilled abundant life irrespective of our age or stage.

If you are interested in rediscovering your joy then keep reading…

 

Then there are those who don’t even have a job, and are tired of looking for jobs. It seems as if job hunting has become a job in itself…

The Millennials…

As most millennials know – job hunting is among the most depressing and humiliating things you will ever experience. Applying for jobs is hard work, getting no call backs or interviews is harder and being rejected is the hardest! 

The requirements are endless and unrealistic! How are you expected to have all these years of experience if you just left school? Yeh right! Or they tell you that you need experience to be hired yet no one is hiring you so you can get that experience!

Who wants to spend six months or more looking for a job? If you are “lucky” enough to land a job you are given a long list of duties and a small salary. After all that, you have to either live at home or depend on your parents to supplement the stipend you’ve been given! A short while later you may hear “we are restructuring and your services are no longer required.”  So you get back on the job-hunting merry-go-round.

Seriously – tell me if that is any way to live??

Even if you are happy in your job and earning a good salary (yes I know some of those people STILL exist) – do you really want to be dependent on a single income stream in this era of job insecurity? Furthermore, do you REALLY want to wait until you are OLD and retired to do all the FUN things you dream of doing?

Recently, a friend was telling me how much she hates her job and how difficult it is to get out of bed in the mornings to go to work. How she looks forward to the end of the day and Fridays because she knows it’s the week-end! All around me I’m hearing similar stories which I can totally identify with and I maintain:

Life is too short to be lived like that!

So I am inviting you to disconnect from the rat race and discover how you can live in purpose, doing something you love. You can work less hours if you choose to (because I must confess starting your own [online] business can be addictive) and invest your time and energy in YOU and your business so you can take back control of your life and get to spend time doing what matters to you!

If you have read anything that you can identify with or know someone who does; please leave me a comment below or contact me at fufilledabundance@gmail.com. I would love to hear from you and discover how I can help you on your journey of change.

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Best,

Karlene