Start With You to Improve Your Job Situation

Our careers grow directly from who we are and how we look at our situation

Embracing a job we need but don't want is a critical step toward creating a better situation for ourselves. ESB Professional/Shutterstock

What can you do when life’s challenges force you to take a job you need but don’t want? Is it possible to transform that job into a better one? The answer is yes, but you must first transform how you think about that job.

You can’t always control what happens to you, but the one thing you do control is how you think. Doing so creates the emotions you rely on to self-motivate your ability to bounce back from hardships and persevere until you can turn your situation around. That’s what John did and so can you.