On the job blues are a normal part of any job. It is important, however, to understand these symptoms to help avoid job burn out from to much work related stress. If you are feeling not much stress about your job stability or from overworking, you will begin to feel unmotivated, which can lead to poor job performance that can lead to termination.

In these economic hard times a raise is not always forthcoming. This feeling can lead to overwhelming stress and tension causing employees to suffer from different health issues directly related to work stress.

Here is some information to determine if you are suffering from on-the-job blues and ways to avoid becoming burnt-out on the job.

Symptoms and Effects of Job Burnout:

Are you anxiety or do you dread going to work each day, when you used to love your job? Do you put in to many hours and leave yourself little time to relax?

How to Cure Job Burnout:

Before you quit your job because you cannot handle the stress decide if the causes of your job burnout can be resolved. Determining the cause of your work stress is very important. Maybe your stress is related to how you deal with your employer and working on that relationship can help ease your burnout. Sometimes it just takes asking for help or reevaluating your workload to help alleviate your stress. Once you have determined the cause of stress try to make a plan to deal with it. Some tips for dealing with job related burnout are limiting the amount of overtime you work; take a vacation or prioritizing your workload.

If you have done theses things and you are still feeling overwhelmed and burnt out then a career change or a change in employment may be the thing you really need. If it comes down to a change in jobs, you should then consider whether or not you are in the right profession, as it could be your profession, not the job, that is causing you the stress.

Whether you have spent a lot of money on education for your current profession and are now making a nice amount of money, you will need to decide if you would rather live a content, less stressful life with a new profession or continue with your current profession and the feeling of stress and burnout.

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