I'm hoping you lovely people out there might be able to help me with a bit of a problem I have at the moment.
This time last year, my department were told we were 'under review' and there may be redundancies at the end of it. They finally finished the review in July, and I was the only person to be told I was confirmed in my job. Don't get me wrong, I was so grateful to still have a job, but I wasn't happy in it to start with. Then they went and changed the job underneath me. Now I hate, detest and despise it! SO much so that it's a real wrench to get out of bed and force myself to come to work every day. I feel so out of my depth - really not understanding what I'm supposed to be doing, or even wanting to do it at all. It doesn't use my attributes or skills and I have spoken to my boss about my concerns. However she just pays lip service and tells me I CAN do the job, and she really believes I will enjoy it once I've got used to it.
The thing is I don't want to get used to it, and I really want to get another job. The only problem is that my OH is on a really low paid job at the moment, and since he left uni in January 2009, has been doing the summer job he was doing while he was studying. He's trying and trying to find a job that'll use his degree, but isn't having much luck.
So I'm really stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment - I can find another job, but I'll have to take a pay cut of at least £6k - which we can't afford to do - or I stay in this job feeling really unhappy until such time as OH is successful in his career hunt.
So anyway, that's a bit of background. The problem is that I find myself thinking about food all the time while I'm at work. There's a vending machine just outside my office door, which I have to pass every time I go to get a drink or go to the loo, and it just keeps on luring me!!! I KNOW it's sabotaging my weight loss, but at the moment, I'm just so unhappy at work that I find it REALLY difficult to resist the temptation. I've tried all the normal tricks of bringing in healthy snack, or 'pre-synned' snacks but I just end up eating those as well!
Does anyone have ANY ideas or thoughts that I can try to stop feeling like this??
This time last year, my department were told we were 'under review' and there may be redundancies at the end of it. They finally finished the review in July, and I was the only person to be told I was confirmed in my job. Don't get me wrong, I was so grateful to still have a job, but I wasn't happy in it to start with. Then they went and changed the job underneath me. Now I hate, detest and despise it! SO much so that it's a real wrench to get out of bed and force myself to come to work every day. I feel so out of my depth - really not understanding what I'm supposed to be doing, or even wanting to do it at all. It doesn't use my attributes or skills and I have spoken to my boss about my concerns. However she just pays lip service and tells me I CAN do the job, and she really believes I will enjoy it once I've got used to it.
The thing is I don't want to get used to it, and I really want to get another job. The only problem is that my OH is on a really low paid job at the moment, and since he left uni in January 2009, has been doing the summer job he was doing while he was studying. He's trying and trying to find a job that'll use his degree, but isn't having much luck.
So I'm really stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment - I can find another job, but I'll have to take a pay cut of at least £6k - which we can't afford to do - or I stay in this job feeling really unhappy until such time as OH is successful in his career hunt.
So anyway, that's a bit of background. The problem is that I find myself thinking about food all the time while I'm at work. There's a vending machine just outside my office door, which I have to pass every time I go to get a drink or go to the loo, and it just keeps on luring me!!! I KNOW it's sabotaging my weight loss, but at the moment, I'm just so unhappy at work that I find it REALLY difficult to resist the temptation. I've tried all the normal tricks of bringing in healthy snack, or 'pre-synned' snacks but I just end up eating those as well!
Does anyone have ANY ideas or thoughts that I can try to stop feeling like this??
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