{"id":16225,"date":"2015-07-06T12:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/?p=16225"},"modified":"2015-07-06T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:29:42","slug":"its-ok-not-to-love-your-day-job-aquarius-feat-dubai-counsellor-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/its-ok-not-to-love-your-day-job-aquarius-feat-dubai-counsellor-diana\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s OK not to love your day job | Aquarius feat. Dubai Counsellor Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Angela Boshoff-Hundal, 1 Jul 2015 | Aquarius Magazine<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Diana Shammaa, counselling psychologist at the German Neuroscience Centre in Dubai, believes that, \u201cToday a job is something of a cultural obligation, which is why it has become the main factor for life\u2019s fulfilment. We have anchored the idea that the job we have defines our identity. For example, when meeting a new person, we often start with the question: \u2018What do you do?\u2019 and unconsciously expect a job-related answer.\u201d We\u2019ve all been there; answering that question when you\u2019re in a job you\u2019re not particularly proud of can make things awkward pretty fast<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cWhile the perfect professional life may not actually exist, you can create one that\u2019s pretty good.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>With that in mind, if many of us are choosing a job based on its ability to fulfil our basic needs over our sentimental or emotional ones, there are going to be times when we don\u2019t like what we do and, according to Diana, that\u2019s perfectly OK.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_single_image border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; image=&#8221;16229&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]\u201cNot liking your job is absolutely fine,\u201d she says. \u201cWe should, essentially, have several pillars or anchors in our lives, including family, social life and hobbies. \u2028Work is just one of these pillars, but because many people allocate the majority of their time to it, it\u2019s easy to become frustrated or let down when something goes wrong with it because the other balancing support pillars aren\u2019t there to keep things in perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Aristotle believed that we cannot be happy when we are obliged to obtain money, 18th-century\u2019s philosophers believed it was possible to feel fulfilled in a job,\u201d Diana explains. \u201cPassion-based or not, a successful professional life means being able to create a balance between the expectations we have of ourselves \u2013 which may include things like being creative or responsible \u2013 as well as our security, gaining a stable income and enjoying our freedom.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Angela Boshoff-Hundal, 1 Jul 2015 | Aquarius Magazine \u2026Diana Shammaa, counselling psychologist at the German Neuroscience Centre in Dubai, believes that, \u201cToday a job is something of a cultural obligation, which is why it has become the main factor for life\u2019s fulfilment. We have anchored the idea that the job we have defines our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}