Should You Leave Your Boring Job?

Bored of your job? We spend a huge amount of our waking hours at work – if your job is boring, that’s a lot of your life spent being bored.

Few jobs are truly exhilarating, however there should be a small part of the job that motivates you. Without this motivation, you could find that your mental health starts to suffer and quality of your work may also decrease.

Leaving and taking up a new job that you care about could make you happier, but you need to be certain that leaving is the right decision. Here are just a few considerations that can help you to cope with your boring job in the best way possible.

Weigh up the pros and cons

The work itself could be boring, but there could be other perks worth staying for. Perhaps the job is well paid? Perhaps there are other company benefits such as a good amount of holiday, flexible working hours, the ability to work from home or even a good relationship with colleagues. Leaving could mean giving all these perks up.

You also need to consider the cons of getting a new job. Will you have to learn everything all over again? Do you have the time to search for a new job?

Sometimes the monotony can be so severe that it outweighs all these perks, however you need to be certain of this before you take the decision to leave. The occasional boring day is likely not worth leaving for.

Is it the job or the career that bores you?

It’s possible that you could be working a boring job in a career field that you love. Perhaps your employer and colleagues are doing nothing to motivate you or perhaps the product/service you’re working with is very niche?

Alternatively, you may have taken the completely wrong career path. Perhaps you ended up going into banking, but really should have gone into marketing? It’s important to determine whether the career field is the problem before you take the decision to look for a new job.

Find your calling

Work out what it is that would make your career more exciting. If you’ve ended up pursuing a medical career behind a desk and you’d rather be on your feet, consider finding a new career in emergency medicine. If you’ve got an office job in a cubicle and find that there’s little social interaction to satisfy you, consider looking for a job in an open-plan office. If you’ve ended up in a repetitive manufacturing job and need more variety, consider looking into bespoke manufacturing. It’s important that you find your calling before you take the decision to leave.

Find ways to spice up your current job

If you decide that leaving is not the right decision for you, consider whether there are small ways of making your current job more exciting. Variety may be what you need to spice things up: consider trying new foods for lunch, listening and discovering new music as you work or even varying the way in which you travel to work. It’s worth also setting yourself challenges and goals, no matter how small – if you’ve currently got nothing to aim for, this could be a big cause of the boredom.