Job Satisfaction
Many people change jobs for no other reason than they have gotten bored with their current job and are looking for some type of “pick-me-up.” When you begin a new job, you start often in a “honeymoon” phase in which people are more prone to ignore your flaws and you are more prone to romanticize your new surroundings.
But research shows that after one year or so, your level of satisfaction drops back down to the “pre-move” level. Yet, people who chose not to change jobs but work to adjust to their current positions, show a negligible level of change in their over-all job satisfaction level.
All jobs have a series of ups and downs. It follows the ebb and flow of life. Neither your marriage nor your job nor life in general is going to be a series of mountain peaks, one after another. Nor are they, generally speaking, going to be one valley after another. Some peaks, some valleys, punctuated by long periods of plateaus.
When Sonja Lyubomirsky writes about The Myths of Happiness, she deals with the problem of unrealistic expectations for those who have started new jobs. How do you deal with the “ebb” of job satisfaction? Her first recommendation is: rein in your expectations.
When you get a new job, you receive some type of compensation – higher salary, more responsibility, more prestige, etc. But we human beings get used to that (the whole theme of Lyubomirsky’s book) and then we expect more. When we don’t get it, we feel that we are going backwards. It is not unlike the government presuming that each year, a department is going to receive a 2 or 3% increase in money to spend. When the department gets only 1%, the head cries and acts like his department is getting a cut. It is a cut of expectations, not a cut in real allowances.
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This same thing happens with us on an individual basis. The solution is to lower our desires – make them more realistic, more in line with reality. If we are not careful, we can allow our expectations and our desires to outpace reality such that we fall into a mentality that says we are entitled to this or that. We may think that we will not be happy if we do not receive this or that.
Lyubomirsky’s solution? In one word – contentment. She suggests you keep a “gratitude journal” – to help you think about the positive aspects of your job. “An authentic sense of gratitude for our career is simply incompatible with an addiction to ever-increasing levels of satisfaction” (124).
But God said it first. Be thankful for what you have. “Thanks” or related words are found 139 times in the NASV. That’s an average of twice every book. Consider these verses as Paul uses the word in Colossians: “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father” (3:15-17).
Once again, Christianity, as it is, is adapted to man as he is. It teaches us to be content & thankful.
–Paul Holland
