Co-Workers and Your Job

Sometimes the people we work with are not the ones we would choose to be around. We often do not click our co-workers and we find it hard to accept our place within the confines of who we must be to do so. Work alone can sometimes be stressful and hard to cope with, but adding the stress of dealing people we can not get along with only amplifies it and may be the hardest part of the day. When we find ourselves in this situation of having to hold back what we think or feel in order to fit into the workplace we can then experience resentment and a feeling of a loss of control. If we have to work with someone who rubs us the wrong way or even actively seeks to do so, then there is a lot of frustration and anger as well.
It can be hard to find peace and to do your job at the same time, with so many conflicts and not enough space for you to be you. Is this what it feels like for you? You are not alone; many people face this predicament on a daily basis, fighting within themselves to keep going, to face the same existence, only finding it harder and harder to do so. What can you do and where do you turn in a space that is confined and without adjustment? Many people might suggest finding another job or relocating, but honestly most of us still want to keep our position at our job and find ourselves in a role of accepting other co-worker’s behavior; although, we may fight it internally. What can you do then? What is the best and easiest path to walk down when you are in this place? If you are feeling frustrated and alone in your work space, know you are not alone. There is a better way to deal with this and it comes from within you.
Imagine when you first started this job, did it feel easier, were you more open, easier to get along with , and perhaps even happier? If this is true, it then falls upon your attitude being adjusted. As time passes in a job, our attitude changes and we begin to not accept other people’s behavior, perhaps amplifying it in our minds because it bothers us. If you were to really look back, did you always feel this way, have you adjusted your perception to fit in with how you now feel about your workplace? What I am suggesting is not to give up, but to open up and to go back to the time when you first started, to remember how you felt, how you saw your job, and the people around you. Are you as open now as you were then? Have you gotten overprotective with how you feel? I understand some people may be really too hard to work with and if this is how you felt when you began the job, then perhaps it is not a good fit for you, but if you can go back and realize that you were once happy, you really can be so again.