Tag: working assets: a career guide for peers

On Liking Your Job

I’m not buying that Black and Latinx workers are forced to suffer in miserable jobs to pay bills.

I helped an African American person create a resume. They landed an interview and got a job in the field they went to school for.

This happens all the time when I help people create resumes: it’s a running joke that they’ll get a job offer after they come to me.

Burnout does not have to be the inevitable outcome in the workplace. In a future blog carnival I’ll detail methods to eliminate burnout (hint: it’s up to management to do the right things first of all).

In my book Working Assets I differentiate between doing what you love on the job and loving what you do. This has a significant implication for alleviating burnout.

To wit: If you’re a home cook you don’t have to become a chef in a high-pressure restaurant kitchen. You can bake pies and bring them to your job to share with coworkers. You can whip up pastries and sell them on the side for extra income.

How to like your job a whole lot better?

Read the Muse website newsletter articles below:

Workday Self-Care

37 Ways to Be Happier at Work

You Didn’t Cause Your Own Burnout

Total Honesty Versus Too Much Information

In my just-published book Working Assets: A Career Guide for Peers Finding and Succeeding at a Job Living with a Mental Illness I give clear pros and cons of disclosing on the job.

This July 2022 I cohosted a Zoom workshop on Editorializing Lived Experience. The question arose: When does being honest veer into TMI–giving too much information?

As an Author and Advocate who keeps 3 different blogs I advance keeping private the things you don’t want to tell others. Nor should you tell others everything if you ask me.

Other bloggers rack up 15 or 16 “likes” with their kiss-and-tell blog entries. On the job it’s dice-y dishing about the details of your diagnosis.

In an ideal workplace coworkers would be free to get and receive support for whatever issue we’re facing whether emotional or otherwise.

The fact is what you tell one coworker might not be kept confidential between the two of you. I’m aware of a situation where another coworker was vocal in a public area about what one person told them in private.

This is the reality. Word gets around whether you want it to or not.

This is a decision we all face: what to reveal and what to keep private.

My preference is to choose carefully what I post in my blogs and what I tell people at work.

How do you feel about this?