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Ok, so the changes in the world and your job have finally broken you. I hear it all the time. I get an e-mail from someone who just lost half the business they had going this month and the boss is not supportive and they cannot get help from the staff. Never has there been more disconnect between management and you. It feels like you are out on a limb and someone is sawing it off. So what do you do?

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”

Drew Carey quotes, American Comedian

Quit. Yes just quit. Nothing is worth your sanity or mental breakdown. Now I hear I can’t quit, I have to have a job, well then what do we do? Saying I can’t take it and feeling at the bottom is a horrible place to be but not doing anything about it can make you sick and then where will you be. Here are some quick tips to stop saying I quit or end the feeling you are powerless.

Get out the resume. Dust that sucker off. Start adding onto it the things you are doing now, update it. Put on there everything you are doing and then call around and ask for references.
Go out there and act as though you do not have a job. I know they say it is always better to get a job when you have one and “they” are right.
Interview and find out what salaries are out there for you and your job skill set. Compare those salaries to what you already make and compare this to the stress levels that come with the new position.
Ask around with your friends and family and find out if others are having a hard time finding work. See if you feel lucky to have something at all.
Ask yourself what is it that you are passionate about. Are you already doing that? Should you be doing something else? A great book for you to read about following your passion is “Crush It” by Gary Vaynerchuk, very enthusiastic endorsement of building a business around your passion.

Now these may not be an exact fix, this is not to actually help you get a better job unless it does work. What you need to do is create a plan to figure out whether you are lucky where you are, can you make more money somewhere else and are you even doing something you like or does your passion lie somewhere else. If you need someone to run over these choice with just let me know. It’s what I do.

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”