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Monday, February 2, 2026

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 🎯.


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?


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.


 

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Stress & Baby Steps #2

The Quiet Weight of Debt I Didn’t Know I Was Carrying 💭💸

I don’t think I ever truly knew how much stress I was carrying while living with two major loans:

  • An SSS loan

  • A personal loan close to six digits 😮

Just writing that still feels heavy. I lived with that debt for more than a decade, and somehow, I convinced myself it didn’t affect me.

I kept telling myself I was fine. That I was chill about it. “I can pay it off if I really want to,” I’d say. It became background noise—something so familiar that I stopped questioning it. Like it was just part of adult life. 🤷‍♀️

But debt doesn’t always announce itself as stress. Sometimes, it sits quietly in the corners of your mind. It shows up in subtle ways—hesitation, tension, overthinking—things you brush off because they feel normal. 🧠

My SSS loan took around three months to fully pay off (I actually need to look that up because I can’t remember the exact timeline anymore). My second-highest loan, aside from my mortgage, took me a full year. A year of consistency, discipline, and living on a tight budget. 📆💪

And then one day, I made the final payment.

There was no big celebration. No dramatic moment. Just a quiet, internal sigh of relief. 😌 A simple thought: “Thank you. I don’t have to carry this anymore.”


             ✅Check out related post Debt snowball... my 2nd debt


That’s when I realized something important.

I hadn’t noticed how much stress those loans were adding to my life until they were gone. The constant mental weight. The low-level anxiety I had normalized. The way it subtly affected my peace of mind. 😴 I thought I was handling it well—but I was really just used to it.

Who would have thought that something I brushed off for years was quietly affecting my emotional well-being?

Paying off those loans didn’t just free up my finances—it freed my mind. It taught me that just because we can live with something doesn’t mean it isn’t costing us. And just because stress feels familiar doesn’t mean it should be ignored. 💡

If you’re carrying debt right now and telling yourself you’re “okay,” maybe pause and check in with yourself. Relief doesn’t always come with fireworks—but when it arrives, you’ll feel it. 🌱


That is it for now. Thanks for reading all the way 🙏💛