A job always involves doing something you don’t like. There is always something – the small stuff like documentation when all you want to do is code or having a progress ‘update’ meeting every single day when you could be actually working with your team to get it done. Or the big stuff like you having to fill a void in the organization that involves you stepping out of what you signed up for and sometimes it is so horrible, you just want to shut down.
Liking a job simply involves making a call on whether most of what you have to do is what you like, can be good at and excites you enough to excel at it. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you come home everyday wondering ‘what am I doing here?’ or have more days where you don’t want to go into work because you hate what is lined up than days where you don’t want to go into work because you are so excited that you want to get started right now, this minute at home – then you need to start looking for another job.
Get out of your comfort zone, go do it…now. Do not whine at work, do not say ‘no’ at work just because you don’t like what you do. If you want to keep your current job, then get with the program and suck it up. Else, get out of the way. Its best for everybody. Get out your company’s way so that they can hire somebody who will get excited about what you don’t like doing. Get out of your own way and go find something that you like doing. Good for everybody.
The one thing that you should not do – whine and make life difficult and stressful for those who work with you because you don’t have the balls to go out there and get another job.
Get with the program.