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Slow Down. Life is simply too short, so don't let things pass you in a blur. Take steps to stop and enjoy the things and people around you.
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Simplify. It seems human nature for just about everyone to take on too many tasks and responsibilities, to try to do too much, and to own too much. Find a way to simplify your life
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Organization and prioritisation always helps. For example, if you are a contractor working in a week with a public holiday, try to work from 7:30am to 6pm for the four working days that week. You'll get paid for 40 hours that week despite losing one working day.
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Negotiate a Change with your Current Employer. Your first step is to research your employer's policies and methods of handling previous requests. Then go to your boss armed with information and a plan that shows how you will be an even more valuable and productive employee if you can modify your current work situation.
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Find a New Career. Some careers are simply more stressful and time-consuming than others. If you need more time for yourself or your family, now may be the time to explore careers that are less stressful and more flexible.
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Find a New Job. Rather than a career change, perhaps you simply need to take a less stressful job within your chosen career.
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Contract Termination Warning Signs
1) New workers start with the company in your role leading up to your contract end date
2) Your boss takes a long time to do anything for you, including granting leave, signing forms
3) Your boss and co-workers start subtly blaming you for things they didn't blame you for before,
such as procedural errors
4) Your co-workers start turning against you in any way when they were lukewarm/friendly beforehand
5) Mention is made by co-workers of a negative attitude of your boss towards you, negative statements etc
6) A cultural divide between you and your organisation is played upon by anyone including co-workers, bosses and staff (especially older staff). This takes the form of "you're older than the other guys" or "you're from this country/background etc"
7) Other workers start performing your tasks (i.e. things the bosses used to ask you to do), sitting near you (surveillance) or changing their working hours in the last few weeks of your contract (rescheduling to fill-in for your coming absence)
8) Your boss or colleagues do not want to communicate (say very little), especially if this is in marked difference to an earlier openness
9) Your statements are contradicted by management or co-workers
10) You have a general disagreement with a co-worker who is beloved by the boss (this person can then feed the boss negative slurs about you that will ultimately have a devastating effect)
11) Your boss is from a radically different culture to you, or age group (i.e. late 40s, Indian)
12) You do not have any good banter with your boss
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Bosses from other countries: If your boss is from another country, ask for their permission to record any conversations you may have in private. If the meeting is about firing you or not renewing your contract, the boss may not know about laws against discrimination. Always have a handheld tape recorded at work ready to go to record any private conversations as there are no witnesses and in a legal case all you will have is hearsay. If your boss is early 30s or younger and from a non-First World country, chances are he or she has little respect for or knowledge of workplace laws in your country, and you may be able to apply for compensation. The boss may not be malicious, just following his country's values which are radically different to the Western World in most cases.
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