Can somebody help me to explain what is job satisfaction?
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From experience, job satisfaction can be explained by the feeling of contentment and a high level of comfort with the job description at hand. \n\nA good salary has a part to play with contentment, but that's only 20% of the job satisfaction. The other 80% comes from being able to do your job well - a sense of achievement; and having an environment that supports your efforts.
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Job offers go to candidates who turn a one-sided examination of skills into a two-way discussion between professionals. No job is added to the payroll for the love of mankind, it is added to prevent problems and to solve the ones that do arise; regardless of job title, we are all problem solvers at work.\n\nInterviews are focused on the problems you’ll be attacking on arrival, so ask questions that help you get a clear picture of the job, “What are the first projects I will be engaged with?” and “What are the biggest challenges I’ll meet in the first few months?” and “What skills and behaviors are most important to success?” and “ What are the biggest problems others have had in this job?” Armed with this information you’ll know how to focus your answers to ace that interview. \n\nBetter u go to www.knockemdead.com.
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I wouldn't say I love it but I like it. Actually it is the perfect job for me. If I had a choice, like endless money I would not go to work at all but do other things. But for a job mine is actually nice.  For me. It would not necessarily be fun for other people. \n\nI am in sales (software), make good money, work from a home office, have wonderful colleagues, great customers and all support I need from the company. My manager is far away and trusts me and does not micromanage.
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Hopefully your work adds value to your life - gives you the feeling that your life has meaning.  Obviously that's not the case for everyone, but not all work is terrible.  It also lets you pass the time if you feel like life is more like "doing time."  Being busy helps keep you focused on the here and now and not think about all the terrible things in the world.  It helps keep my life organized.  It's kind of my own opiate because it makes me think about something else.  Otherwise, I tend to fixate on world problems and chewing on them like they were riddles to be solved when in fact many have no solution.  I get frustrated and depressed then and work lets me forget that and focus on what I'm supposed to be doing - which has little to do with world peace or war or... Oh, who am I kidding?  Politics is a threat to what I am doing and I have to justify it somehow to people that might even hate what I am doing even if I do an excellent job.  Should I be thankful that it's because of the hateful people that I have my job?  I mean, what I do - it wouldn't be needed if we had a society that valued everyone.  There wouldn't be anyone oppressed, so I'd have to find a different job... I could definitely handle that, yet the oppression is there, so so is the job... I'd like to see this position made unnecessary, but the depressing part is not seeing the end... Like it was possible, but now it's being crushed... or maybe it was all just a pointless idealistic dream, so now my job is needed even more because there is so much more hate today...\n\nIs that an example of work stealing someone's life or is it something that happens in life anyway?
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What are your qualifications? Schooling? Experience?\n\nMost important to many employers is ATTITUDE.\n\nSometimes people complain about their present jobs to perspective employers...big mistake. The interviewer is thinking "is this person going to badmouth my company if they interview elsewhere?"  The best response I've heard if asked about dislikes is to say "I prefer to focus on the positives aspects because it's more productive."
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It sounds like you want the money, insurance and flexible hours.  Yet, you do not like your job.\n\nTo keep the money and insurance, you would have to work for now.  But, if you really dislike your job, perhaps you should look for another job.\n\nAlso, 80% of people leave because they do not like their direct boss.  Is it the job itself, or the people that you do not like?  It might help to understand what about the job you do not like, other than being underpaid.\n\nHere's a quick summary:\n\n1. Understand what it is that you do not like about your current job\n2. Identify what kind of job you would like\n3. Master the skills, if necessary, to perform the job you like\n4. Search for another job
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The mind can be one’s friend or enemy, the cause of both bondage and liberation.\n\nDetachment from the consequences or results of actions performed in the course of one's duty. Being dedicated to work means “working for the sake of work, generating excellence for its own sake.” If we are always calculating the date of promotion or the rate of commission before putting in our efforts, we aren’t detached. We’re working only for the extrinsic reward that may or may not result. Working with an eye only to the anticipated benefits means that the quality of performance of the current job or duty suffers (through mental agitation or anxiety for the future). Events don’t always respond positively to our calculations, hence expected fruits may not always be forthcoming.  It’s been presumed for many years that satisfying basic needs of workers—adequate food, clothing and shelter, etc.are key factors in motivation. However, it’s a common experience that the dissatisfaction of clerks and of directors is identical only the levels of dissatisfaction and composition vary. It should be true that once the basic needs are more than satisfied, directors should have little problem in optimizing their contribution to the organization and society. But more often than not it doesn’t happen that way. On the contrary, a lowly paid schoolteacher or a self-employed artisan may demonstrate higher levels of self-actualization despite poorer satisfaction of their basic needs. \n\nPutting others before oneself, and emphasizing teamwork, dignity, cooperation, harmony and trust; potentially sacrificing basic needs for higher goals. The ego spoils work and the ego’s the centerpiece of most theories of motivation. People don’t need a theory of motivation, but a theory of inspiration.
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Definately Happy Employees are Productive Employees... work always goes better if you are happy with what you are doing.\n\nProductive employees are Happy employees only applies to those who receive bonuses for making quotas
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Start looking now. Your job is what you spend most of your waking hours doing, and If it's not making you happy, don't punish yourself. Sure it might get better, but you've got to be happy.
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State of mental and physical well being.\nIt could be the enivronment you work it. Is it boring, not lit adequate, poor ciruclation of air, too hot or cold, no natural light, bad company, not enthuasiastic to be there?\nCould be your body as well.\nYour emotional state always changes when you leave work becuase you already in a diffeent state of mind.
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All of the above answers are correct, but work is multi-faceted like most important things in life.  It can mean different things to us at different times in our lives.\n\nFor some people in some situations, work means "just a job" or something they do just to earn money.  They may not have much if any emotional investment in doing a good job, or moving up the ladder professionally.  If this is one's primary job, then having this attitude and this work ethic may mean that you may not be popular or well-liked or even trusted by everyone from your boss to your co-workers to people who work beneath you.  This attitude is likely to get you fired or even shunned.  I work with a woman whose classroom is near mine physically but she's very shy, and she told me once that she "just comes here to work" even though my school site is very warm and collegial and we function well as administration and teachers and staff.  I feel sorry for her that this is "just work."  Although she does a good job with her students, her relationships with her colleagues are nearly non-existent, and she remains a mystery after five years working together.\n\nFor others, a job may be a stepping-stone in a career.  People may stay at such a job for a short, medium or long time, depending on many factors, like their own motivation, desire for new skills and challenges, length of the job itself and so on.  In this kind of situation people would have more emotional investment in the job -- and concomitantly the people one works with also -- because this would be seen as an important part of a developing career.  \n\nThe highest level one can attain in work is finding and working in one's vocation or calling.  Once found, people work at their callings/vocations (I use the word interchangeably) for decades, although not always in the same position.  People may transfer laterally after doing one job for quite a while, not only to get more experience but also to gain new skills and keep themselves fresh and motivated.  People may want to explore many different facets of one discipline.  \n\nWork and labor are different too.  Labor we usually associate with hard work done with the body, or with a huge project that takes a long time, many steps, lots of willpower, etc., to accompllish.  A labor of love is different still: it may require all of the above, but people usually throw their hearts and minds into it, and it becomes a pet project or "your baby" and you may have strong feelings and expectations about the outcomes and other people's reactions to your labor of love when you are done.\n\nWork, on the other hand, can be seen as something neutral: just something you do to put food on the table and have a roof over your head, or it can be seen as a positive good: a way to earn money to feed, clothe and shelter yourself and/or a family, a way to do good in the community, and a way to be a part of a community and give to the greater good.  Those are two ends of a spectrum of feelings about work, and I'm sure there are many other feelings in between.\n\nIdeally work should be interesting, enlivening, empowering, challenging without being too stressful or impossible.  It should bring us into contact with firm-but-fair bosses with open minds and a lack of fear about exploring new ideas and new ways of doing things.  It should bring us into contact with people with new ideas and perspectives so that our mind is challenged by ideas and thoughts that keep us on our toes.  And it should provide a way to give back to the community, to mentor someone who is new/inexperienced.  Those are all the ideal positives about work, and no one job is ever going to meet all of those things.  Work can be tedious, dull and stressful at times, and the longer you hold a job, you are guaranteed to experience all these emotions at one time or another.\n\nThe Protestant work ethic has a huge hold here in America, so much so that many Ame
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well you better ask yourself if you want to stay with that job. coz you know i feel the same way when im working actually till now im still struglling how i wish i could just escape here in this work.\n\nNever continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself; you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."\n~Johnny Carson~
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my initial response was money, but i was wrong. people take it for granted, the more money they make. what motivates employees is satisfaction in their job, doing a job they like and is rewarding, feeling a sense of accomplishment, having other people rely on you and appreciate you. and  a little more than a pat on the back
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As someone who runs the daily operations of a company, let me say this:\n\nIf work isn't fun, it isn't worth having.  There has to be a balance between efficiency and productivity with true enjoyment of your job.  I don't care if we're talking the public or private sector.  For the record, I work in the private sector, but am heavily regulated by the public sector.  \n\nMy philosophy is to get lots done, but to get it done fun.  I refuse to work somewhere that is boring!  We have one life, and I refuse to one day say, "I made a living, but wished I was dead while doing it."  It's not worth it; get out there, find a fun job, throw some white out across the office, laugh just because you feel like it.  \n\nThe quality and quantity of the work will prove its effectiveness.
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Don't settle for a job that gets stagnant. I worked for 12 years as a service rep for a huge telephone company, had opportunities to advance to a supervisors position, (didn't want the headaches) but the politics were overwhelming. I resigned over a year ago. I feel much better physically and mentally! I have a small business to fall back on, which is doing pretty well, to suppliment my husbands income. \n\nIf you stay with a job that gets to you like that, eventually, you will start having physical problems. Mine got so bad that I ended up going into Congestive Heart Failure 2 years ago. To make a long story short, since I left, I've gotten a clean bill of health (which is most important!), and I have a lot more patience with people in general.
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There is  a difference between being paid well/benefitting from and job and being happy and fulfilled.  The question isn't what would I do, the question is whether or not you are willing to possibly sacrifice the good parts of the job you have for something that gives you the chance to do something you feel is more worthwhile.
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Go to your Human recorses manager and fill for a grivence report on your boss. This could get him sacked and you a better job satisfaction.