The workplace is now a different kind of “high-wage poverty”, where poverty refers not only to material but also to psychological barrenness.
The manifestations of high-wage poverty are:
1.High income cannot meet high consumption
Many white-collar women are wearing the halo of “high salary” but feel quite “destitute”. “The company’s main goal is to provide a comprehensive range of products and services to the public. “Actually, I didn’t buy anything.” They always list their recent expenses with an innocent face. A classmate’s wedding gift, last week’s sale to buy some clothes and shoes, a bag brought by someone from Hong Kong, etc.. In their eyes, they are not spending money “big” shopaholics, but want to buy too many things, unknowingly credit card overdraft. In fact, their high spending is related to the nature and environment of their jobs, where their colleagues are well-groomed and have a higher appetite for brands than others.
2. High salaries don’t give a sense of security
Imbalance is not a problem, it’s just a matter of cutting costs, but today, many white-collar workers are suffering from a different kind of “high-wage poverty”, rich in material things but barren in spirit. The lack of a sense of job identity, coupled with anxiety about the future, sometimes the confusion of “if I jump ship, what else can I do” arises.
What makes you a “high salary poor” person?
1. Self-worth has not found a platform to be realized
People who suffer from high-wage poverty often have high aspirations to realize their self-worth. The first thing they don’t realize is that the sense of fulfillment at work is not satisfied by money alone, and after a while, their single, biased values lead them into confusion: their work is uninteresting, their sense of fulfillment is getting lower and lower, their motivation to work is getting lower and lower, and they feel like a machine. What work is more valuable?” They don’t know that their real problem is that they haven’t found a platform to realize their self-worth.
2. Settling for stability and lack of progress
In practice, a job often doesn’t offer you the opportunity to learn and be challenged over time. If you keep repeating the same work process every day, you are basically standing still, and your ability is not being improved, except that many people are indifferent in order to settle down. People with limited capabilities are discouraged by the unknown and take an avoiding attitude toward establishing new goals, which makes it difficult to open up at work and diminishes the sense of value as time passes.
3. Wavering values
When you’re not sure what kind of work will give you satisfaction, you’re bound to be distracted by outside influences and wavering. When you look at someone else’s success, you are envious and think it is good, so you blindly go after it, but soon realize it is not what you want, and immediately lose your mind and hit back to the prototype. In the workplace, the performance is unqualified, impatient, blindly follow the trend, like to repeatedly toss, work experience is not in a direction of positive accumulation.
6 Tips to Say Goodbye to “High Pay Poverty”
1.Re-plan your career
Once you know what you are interested in, you need to assess what resources are available to you and know how to use them to make a difference. and know how to use this to make a difference. Then it’s time to do a good job of career planning, to give yourself new hope and direction so you can let go of the “past” and get out of the cage. New career orientation, new career entry points, new development paths and new action plans will all be covered in your latest career plan. A complete, scientific, and feasible plan is the key to taking off the “golden handcuffs.
2. Keep improving your skills to manage your career interests
Don’t be afraid to make a change, maybe this one will be a great opportunity for you.
3. Try to change your own bad perceptions
In this world we have to acknowledge that each of us as individuals has a limited capacity. We can’t control and change other people; we can only change and control ourselves. And those things we can’t change or control we should face up to them and accept them with awe and respect.
4. Find your own interests
Encourage individuals to find work that interests them, something that is worth spending a lifetime exploring and pursuing. Not only are interests a lasting source of motivation for your work, they also reflect your values to some extent, and these are important indicators that you will find the right job for you. To find your interests, first, deep self-awareness; second, in work practice, continuous self-reflection, digging their deepest needs. And these two points, not blindly explore and try, there are certain methods and rules. If you are not sure about this, you may want to seek advice from a career planner first.
5. Learn to make good cues to yourself
Especially when relaxed, such cues can reach our subconscious mind and work directly. We have to tell ourselves very firmly and sincerely: “I am confident”, “I am great”, “I can do it”, “I can do my job “, “I’m enjoying my life now” and so on and so forth in short but powerful words. You input the intensity of these words to reach, and our subconscious mind will naturally mobilize some of our deeper programs to operate. Over time, we become really as confident and empowered as we think we are.
6. Learn to be grateful
Nowadays, as society develops and enters a diversified market economy, people feel that happiness is difficult to obtain because of the intensity and variety of needs, and therefore the difficulty of satisfying them. This is all an inevitable process of social modernization and development, and there was such a process in the West when it was modernized. Human society is constantly developing in the process of satisfying needs. It is important to look at your life with gratitude, not to think that you deserve everything, that society owes you everything, and not to think that everything is so easy to get. It takes a persistent process to achieve successful happiness, and it’s impossible to achieve it in one step.
The problem is not only material, but also psychological. The company’s main goal is to make sure that the company’s employees have a good understanding of the company’s business. Only in this way, the combination of material and spiritual aspects can completely get rid of the “high salary poverty”, and can make a real increase in happiness.