如何及時(shí)補救職業(yè)遺憾？

1. Choosing a job based on compensation alone

1. 僅根據薪水選工作

Remedy: Make a budget. If you don’t know how much money you need to live the lifestyle you feel comfortable with, you can’t accurately project whether switching jobs for a $10K pay bump is actually a good deal. Making a pros and cons list when comparing your current job with a new opportunity is also helpful. If the only advantage a job offers is a bigger pay check, you can weigh that against longer hours, a more onerous commute and increased reporting responsibilities. Keep in mind that research shows that increases in happiness based on earnings peak at about $75K. Incomes above this level don’t increase your feeling of well-being on a day-to-day basis. So, if you think a jump up to $85 or $90K will make you feel less morose when your alarm goes off, you might want to look at addressing some of the non-monetary factors in your life that are contributing to your dissatisfaction.

補救辦法： 做預算。 如果你不能估算需要多少錢(qián)才能過(guò)上令你感到舒適的生活，你就無(wú)法確切地知道為了1萬(wàn)美元薪水而換工作是否真的劃算。在比較新、舊工作時(shí)，列出各自的優(yōu)缺點(diǎn)，這會(huì )對你很有幫助。如果新工作只是薪水更高一點(diǎn)，那么你可以比較下這個(gè)工作是否要求更長(cháng)的工作時(shí)間和完成更多的工作任務(wù)。請記住，調查表明：年收入在7.5萬(wàn)美元以?xún)�，幸福感�?huì )隨著(zhù)薪水的增加而增加，但是一旦薪水超過(guò)這個(gè)水平，幸福感的增加便不再明顯。因此，如果你認為薪水增加到8.5萬(wàn)或9萬(wàn)美元會(huì )使你更加快樂(lè )，這時(shí)你或許應該著(zhù)手解決生活中那些與金錢(qián)無(wú)關(guān)而引起的不快樂(lè )。

2. Staying too long in a job that you want to leave

2. 在原來(lái)工作崗位上呆太久了

Remedy: The tricky aspect of this regret is that it’s typically rooted in hindsight. Only after you’ve left the job and have moved on to something better, do you start beating yourself up for not making the leap sooner, even if it hadn’t been practical or possible. What you can do is to identify the factors that kept you in your former position as red flags to be aware of in the future and work to line up supports that will allow you to more quickly capitalize on other opportunities as they may present themselves. This could include reviewing and updating your resume with new accomplishments on a monthly or quarterly basis, keeping your LinkedIn account current, building up a contingency fund to allow you to feel less tethered to your current pay check and staying in the loop on industry news and gossip to be aware of where your skills and experience could be of value.

補救辦法：這種遺憾的棘手之處在于，它通常是后知后覺(jué)的。只有在你已經(jīng)離開(kāi)這個(gè)崗位并找到了更好的工作之后，你才會(huì )開(kāi)始后悔為什么沒(méi)有早點(diǎn)跳槽，即使這原本是不切實(shí)際的想法。你能做的就是找到使你留在這個(gè)崗位的理由，作為以后提醒自己的信號。另外，你還要通過(guò)各種途徑使自己可以在機遇出現的時(shí)候能夠快速抓住它，比如你可以按月或按季度重新審視自己并用新的成果來(lái)更新你的簡(jiǎn)歷；同步更新在LinkedIn上的信息；準備應急資金以減輕你對當前工作的依賴(lài)；了解業(yè)內最新消息，以便知道自己可以在哪里大展拳腳。

3. Not starting your own business

3. 沒(méi)有開(kāi)始創(chuàng )業(yè)

Remedy: While the idea of being your own boss is an attractive one, not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. Being responsible for your own success, creating a legacy for your family and improving the lives of clients and customers certainly sounds romantic, but what about the long hours, the lack of leisure time, the risk of financial failure, the fact that you’re the boss, entry-level employee, marketer, accountant and janitor all rolled into one? If you value job stability, prefer a singular focus over multi-tasking, aren’t particularly comfortable with risk and can’t imagine yourself hustling for new business on a daily basis, the entrepreneurial lifestyle isn’t for you.

補救辦法：雖然自己當老板的想法很誘人，但并不是每個(gè)人都適合創(chuàng )業(yè)。創(chuàng )造屬于自己的事業(yè)，讓家人過(guò)上幸福生活，改善顧客的生活，這些聽(tīng)起來(lái)肯定很浪漫，但漫長(cháng)的工作時(shí)間、沒(méi)有閑暇時(shí)間、承擔資金風(fēng)險，身兼老板、職員、營(yíng)銷(xiāo)人員、會(huì )計和門(mén)衛等多個(gè)職位于一身，這些你能承受嗎？如果你喜歡穩定的工作和專(zhuān)注于某項具體任務(wù)而不是身兼多職，又或者你不喜歡冒險，你就無(wú)法想象整天為工作忙碌的生活。如果你屬于以上情況，那么創(chuàng )業(yè)并不適合你。

4. Slacking at school

4. 學(xué)業(yè)沒(méi)有學(xué)好

Remedy: This is another hindsight-based regret that you can’t cure without a time machine. The years, energy and dollars you spent on your degree are sunk costs. You can’t do anything about your past academic track record, but you can identify the areas in which you think you fell short in your college days and figure out how to augment those shortcomings in the present. For example, if you feel you didn’t do enough networking outside of the classroom, you might consider joining an alumni group or make a greater effort to participate in professional associations in your field. If you regret skipping your 8:00 AM managerial accounting class and mourn how useful those concepts would be to you now, check out the continuing ed options at your nearest community college.

補救辦法：這也是一個(gè)后知后覺(jué)的遺憾，沒(méi)有時(shí)間機器是無(wú)法解決的。你在學(xué)業(yè)上花費的時(shí)間、精力和金錢(qián)是既定成本。你無(wú)法改變以前的學(xué)業(yè)情況，但可以找出自己在大學(xué)期間沒(méi)有學(xué)好的課程，然后想辦法從現在開(kāi)始彌補。例如，如果你覺(jué)得自己在課堂外的社交有所不足，你可以考慮加入校友協(xié)會(huì )，或者努力地融入到你所在領(lǐng)域的行業(yè)協(xié)會(huì )。如果你后悔錯過(guò)了早上八點(diǎn)鐘的管理會(huì )計課程，悲嘆這些知識現在對你多么重要，那么你可以看看附近社區大學(xué)的這類(lèi)課程。

5. Lacking confidence in your career intuition

5. 對自己的職業(yè)直覺(jué)缺乏信心

Remedy: When we make a major decision such as accepting (or turning down) a job offer, we tend to exercise confirmation bias. If we think we made a good choice, we prioritize information that supports this view and if we fear we’ve made a mistake, we zero in on intel or impressions that reinforce this gut feeling. If you habitually doubt your competence when it comes to making career decisions, the issue is less about the subjective quality of your past choices and more about building confidence in your ability to guide your career in a satisfying direction and exert some degree of control over the outcomes of your choices. Addressing this could involve recalling the circumstances under which you made a particular choice and the priorities you held at the time and noting how they differ from the circumstances and priorities under which you’re evaluating those decisions. It could also involve working with a career coach to identify patterns in your decision-making and to help you bolster areas in which you’d like to increase your confidence – risk taking or negotiation, for example.

補救辦法：當我們在做出重大決定時(shí)，例如接受（或拒絕）工作邀請時(shí)，我們往往會(huì )受到信息性偏見(jiàn)的影響。如果我們認為自己做出了正確的選擇，就首先會(huì )想到那些支持這種想法的信息。但如果我們擔心自己犯了錯誤，我們的潛意識就會(huì )增強這種直覺(jué)。在做出工作的決定時(shí)，如果你習慣性地懷疑自己的能力，這個(gè)問(wèn)題不在于你以前所做的職業(yè)選擇是否正確，而在于你需要建立自信，相信自己有能力選擇讓自己滿(mǎn)意的職業(yè)，并對結果有一定的把握。若要解決這個(gè)問(wèn)題，需要回憶你在做出這個(gè)選擇時(shí)所處的環(huán)境和當時(shí)你所優(yōu)先考慮的因素，然后看看現在所處的環(huán)境和優(yōu)先考慮的因素是否發(fā)生了變化。此外還要與職業(yè)顧問(wèn)合作，理清工作決策，幫助你增強進(jìn)入新領(lǐng)域的信心、承擔風(fēng)險和談判的能力。