2026 vs 2017 - Review post: Reasons Why You Are Not Satisfied with Your Job?

It’s fascinating to reread a post I wrote almost eight years ago 📖. I’m genuinely grateful that I can now look back and clearly see how my perspective — and my understanding of the world — has changed 🌱🌏.

When I read my old post, “Reasons Why You Are Not Satisfied with Your Job,” I notice a familiar pattern: most of my reasoning was about why things weren’t working for me 🤔. I was quick to point out external causes and slow to recognize my own role in the situation.

At the time, that felt logical ✅. Now, I see it differently.

While it’s true that a bad environment can affect you — as I mentioned in my third point about listening to negative coworkers 🙄 — I’ve come to believe that environment only has power when your internal foundation is weak 💪. One negative voice can influence you only if you lack the strength to filter it out.

With strong mental clarity 🧠, emotional stability 💛, and good physical health 🥩, you don’t absorb everything you hear. You choose what deserves your attention 🎯.

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See bulleted points below, where I asked ChatGPT to summarize my post 📝:

• Frequent job changes after graduation 🔄
  I moved through five jobs across industries and locations, constantly searching for fulfillment but never feeling settled.

• Decisions driven by youth and external approval 😓
  Many choices were motivated by the desire to impress others rather than genuine alignment, which led to burnout and dissatisfaction.

• Negative influence from coworkers 🙃
  I allowed constant complaining and gossip to shape how I viewed my work, even in roles that were relatively stable.

• Living paycheck to paycheck — mentally 💸
  Work became about survival, not growth, accompanied by frustration over missed goals and limited finances.

• Misalignment with company goals, especially in sales 🎯
  Struggling to meet targets revealed a deeper mismatch between my personality, skills, and the role itself.

• Enduring jobs as “stepping stones” ⏳
  I accepted roles out of sacrifice and urgency, which resulted in wasted energy rather than progress.

I love how ChatGPT helped me summarize and organize the reflections above 😄💡 — a small reminder that the right tools can make thinking, writing, and growth so much easier.

✅ Read the full 2017 post: Reasons Why You Are Not Satisfied with Your Job?

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How I See It Now (2026) 

As I often share on this blog, I couldn’t truly understand what was wrong until I addressed my health 🥗💪. An undernourished body and mind don’t stand a chance against the constant negativity the world throws at you 🌪️.

As my health improved — through proper nourishment and eating real, nutrient-dense food like beef 🥩 — my thinking became clearer 🧠. I began to see the bigger picture. Gossip became noise 📣❌ and should never have a place in your mind.

With a healthy body, clarity feels natural — like standing on top of a mountain 🏔️ and calmly observing the scenery below instead of being lost inside it.

That shift changed how I make decisions, how I listen 👂, and how I choose what deserves my energy ⚡. Fixing my health helped me realize the real reason I was never satisfied with my job.

This isn’t really about the job itself — it’s about the fact that my financial goals weren’t being achieved the way I wanted 💰.

With a clearer mind and better health, I can finally see that my dissatisfaction wasn’t caused by gossip, other people, or external circumstances 🙅‍♀️. The real issue was that I hadn’t yet learned the steps needed to reach my goals 📈.

Today, I am fully transparent about the financial plan I’m following 📊. I am committed to taking conservative, baby steps 🐾 as taught by Dave Ramsey, trusting the process, and keeping my faith in the Lord ✝️ at the center of it all.

This way, I don’t live for money alone 💵 — I live a life that also nourishes my soul 💛 and aligns with what I believe in 🌿.

That’s all for now.
Thank you for reading all the way through.