Warning: Do Not Read This Unless You Are Frustrated As Hell With Your Job

If pointless meetings, silly processes and irritating colleagues drive you round the bend, I've got something you might like:

Unsuck Your Job

This cheekily titled short PDF explains something it took me the best part of 13 years in corporate banking to realise.

You don't need to get rid of everything that annoys you about your job before you can enjoy it.

I still work in banking today. I still sit through pointless meetings, I still get baffling emails and I still come across systems designed by people who've never actually used the system.

But this stuff doesn't wind me up like it used to.

That's what Unsuck Your Job is all about.

Here's some of what you'll find inside:

  • A powerful quote from one of the world's greatest self-help gurus which explains how the same job can make you miserable for years, then suddenly stop bothering you even though nothing at work has changed
  • How to stop carrying pointless meetings, silly emails and infuriating colleagues around in your head
  • The hidden downside of becoming great at spotting everything that's wrong with your job
  • What Claude Monet apparently noticed about an ordinary tree that could change the way you feel about everything you hate at work
  • 5 quick and easy ways to take the sting out of all your workplace bugbears
  • The "Coffee-Shop Effect" that explains why you and a colleague can sit through the exact same meeting but experience two completely different meetings
  • How your job trains you to become better at hating your job without you even realising
  • The curious reason an email can drive you bananas on a Monday but barely bother you on a Wednesday (even though it's exactly the same email!)
  • What to do the next time you're stuck in a pointless 45 minute meeting, silently raging at the meeting and everyone in it
  • The "syndrome" coined by Warren Buffet's right hand man Charlie Munger that could be skewing the way you see your job
  • How a former bureaucracy-hater learned to genuinely enjoy the exact corporate bullshit that used to drive him round the bend, without changing the bullshit or forcing himself to "think positively"

None of this is about pretending your job is wonderful.

Some meetings really are pointless, some processes really are ridiculous and some emails really do make you wonder whether the sender has lost their marbles.

The trick is seeing that none of it has to ruin your day.

If you'd like to find out how, here's where to grab Unsuck Your Job