Official Review: Hate Your Job? The Essential Guide to Im...

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[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Hate Your Job? The Essential Guide to Improving Job Satisfaction Without Making a Career Change" by Michelle Wood.]

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Michelle Wood’s Hate Your Job?: The Essential Guide to Improving Job Satisfaction Without Making a Career Change does a great job of taking a no-nonsense approach to job satisfaction. She identifies the most common job satisfaction triggers: job security, compensation, office relationships, job scope, and work-life balance. She then breaks it down into different aspects that can cause dissatisfaction. For example, issues with co-workers, commute, lack of compensation, limited job scope, and stress. She also has four worksheets that the reader feels out along the way to reflect on their own work life and what some possible solutions are to make high priority problems better.

The best part of her argument is that she not only uses research and various survey data, but also real-life experiences to back up her methods to create job satisfaction. She doesn’t tell you why you’re not happy, but helps you to discover it for yourself. Her worksheets are easy to use and complement the text well.

Her format is well-laid out. Each section is broken down into simpler components and sub-components. None of the text is useless. Each sentence, paragraph, and section helps bring the reader to their own conclusion about their job, their happiness, and job sense.

Her book is informative, engaging, and the perfect length. My favorite part of this book was that, despite having a fairly satisfying job myself, she was still able to help me to identify areas that could use improvement. Armed with possible solutions she had me come up with, I can create a more satisfying work environment while reducing stress, increasing happiness, and have a better understanding of my co-workers. I also liked how she didn’t let you point fingers at anyone and helped you to realize that the people who are causing you problems, may not even realize they are. Like, for example, your boss may not know you’re overworked or your co-worked may not realize that you find it irritating when they interrupt you in meetings. Instead of trying to change them necessarily, however, she helps you to find alternate solutions that are professional and courteous while still achieving your desired goals.

The only problem I could find was that in one part where she is giving examples of possible things that might be irritating you about your co-workers, it would’ve been nice to have another example or two, but this is definitely not a deal-breaker when it comes to this book.

Overall, I give it 4 out of 4 stars. This book is a fabulous tool that caters to a wide-range of people in a practical, reflective, and informative way. I recommend this book for anyone thinking about changing jobs or who just want to create more job satisfaction for themselves.

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