Back in 2016, my friend Jeff Goins shared some strong feelings on Facebook about complaining when it comes to your job.
I’ve included an excerpt of that post below:

I’m sorry, people. But you can’t hate your job and do nothing about it. Either change your circumstance or stop complaining. Your employer deserves better—and so do you.

And please, please, PLEASE don’t tell me you have no options. You have options. Lots of them:
-You can quit.
-You can change departments.
-You can do something on the side that makes your current situation more tolerable.
You have a choice. You may not like it. It may not be easy. But you are not stuck.
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Look. I am a realist.
By no means do I think everyone has to love their job every day, all of the time. I work for myself and it’s no picnic. But I realize this is what I chose, and I deal with it. I try to find something to love every day, even on the days when my boss is a jerk. 😉
But life is too short to do stuff you can’t stand.
Don’t believe the lie that you can’t do anything about your situation. You can. This is the most amazing age in which humans have ever lived. Remember polio? Exactly. The fact that you aren’t dead yet is a friggin’ miracle.
So do something with this one life you’ve been given, please. Or don’t. But for the love of God, stop the complaining. It is quite literally making your life, and the lives of those around you, even more miserable.
I happen to agree with him 1000%. What about you?
Most of us have a lot more control over what we do for work than we realize. We’ve simply made the choices society has told us we should make.
In my last job, I’d been thinking about leaving for a while but never quite got up the courage (I was eventually let go).
I didn’t hate it.

264: Life Is Too Short to Do Things You Can’t Stand!

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264: Life Is Too Short to Do Things You Can’t Stand!