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Old Oct 08, 2012, 01:00 PM
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Perna Perna is offline
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If you don't like the job and/or the people you work with, that's you and your likes and dislikes (which is fine but you have to be aware of that). Why are you taking jobs like that? If you take a job just to have a job, it probably is not going to work out?

I always planned what kind of job I wanted and what I wanted from that job; not all mine have been money-making, I use to take jobs to learn certain skills or to "practice" getting along with certain types of people; bosses, coworkers, customers. The people who work for a law firm are going to be different from the people who work at Walmart?

I would try to manage your paranoia actions (not the paranoia itself :-) only allow yourself to ask how you're doing once every month or something. I would figure out and recognize (as you seem to have) that you are "getting mad at them for what I know they likely aren't even doing" and use your intelligence to squash that. Learn to feel angry, anxious, etc. but function anyway, using your head to be manager.

Tell yourself, "they probably aren't even doing that!" and talk back to the voices in your head that are trying to pull you down; they don't use very specific or sophisticated language and you are smart enough to do so; don't put up with their muttering, confront them or make fun of them (sometimes lots more enjoyable). Eventually, if you are not minding them, they'll go away. Only you can give them energy or starve them.
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