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What about little or no will to do things?
Ferrante | Mar 27 2006
Hi everybody, I was wondering if someone has ever experienced this kind of "chronic fatigue" or simply put, lack of will or energy to do simple things. My current status: I work as a CIO for two countries in a big company. I have a strong technical background (more than 15 years) and now I have to deal with many different problems (specially company politics), aside of pure technical situations. My main problem, as I mentioned before, is the chronic lack of energy to do things apart from my job. I always wanted to learn french and german or to read more books (I used to read 4 or 5 books a month), but when I get home, I don?t want to do anything but rest. I?ve tried everything: meditation, medication, exercise (I do some workout regularly), 8-hour sleep cycles, balanced food, etc., but nothing seems to work, or at least, to have lasting effects. Lately, I?ve been experiencing concentration and lack of focus problems, which is bad for my job. It seems that the problem is starting to affect my work as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. 30 Comments
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Time for a change?!Submitted by michaelramm on April 27, 2006 - 6:39am.
Ferrante wrote:
It?s kind of strange, but after a couple of hours after leaving the office, I feel better, more rested and somehow reinvigorated. I had this a couple of times in my career. The thing that changed it for me was a new job. I had grown weary of the day-to-day grind at my University job at our HelpDesk. There was no chance for advancement so I left. My last job was frustrating because our parent company was beginning to take over our IT functions so my role was diminishing quickly, so again I moved in January 06. Now I am a 1-man IT Dept at a local municipality and I love it. There is a lot of work to get done (they were without a netadmin for almost 9 months) and a BIG project of moving entire network from Novell 5 to Windows. I am sure that there will be a time when I feel that way again. But you have to work through it until something new comes and reinvigorates you. When you get to the point of dreading going to work EVERY SINGLE DAY, then it is probably time to look into a new job. Just my thoughts. Michael » POSTED IN:
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