You can and should work with pleasure and interest! But how to set yourself up for active work? Why any job sooner or later gets boring, and changing it is scary?

We talked about this and many other things with Anna Khnykina, a psychologist and head of the Assistance Center..

- Why do many of us perceive work as a kind of curse. The party said: " net - It's in our culture. Only 150 years ago serfdom was abolished, after the revolution in our country there were mainly workers and peasants who were originally forced people and did what they were told. And we are all descended from these people.

For our society, at the moment, a completely new idea is that you can and should work with pleasure and interest.. If people got up and went about their own chosen business, then half of the accountants would become artists, and the artists would be retrained for someone else, but they would all do it with pleasure. If every person did what he wants to do, the results of the activities of our people, both individually and the whole country as a whole, would change very much.

- What to do if the work is tired, but quitting is scary?

- In this case, I would try to find out why it is scary. Absolutely any place, wherever you work, is not the only one. Experts advise every 4-5 years to change the place of work or type of activity, to radically change something, precisely in order to improve oneself and move on. The fact is that a blurry look of details does not add, does not advance you anywhere..

- It is better to go to some prepared platform?

- I think that you need to look for a suitable way of transition for you, as you will be comfortable. Maybe some specialist will help you orient yourself, maybe you yourself will understand how it would be better: to leave on prepared ground or quit, cut off the ends and then start actively looking for work. Each person decides for himself such issues as it is comfortable for him.. This, probably, is the essence of our conversation: the main thing is to feel interest in the process and enjoy.

When it’s uncomfortable, probably, the human body tells you where you shouldn’t go, you don’t need to annoy yourself once again.

- Not everyone has intuition and it does not lead everyone in the right direction.

- You need to listen to yourself and understand: I don’t want to leave work, because it’s not safe for me, I will be left without money. So you need to look for a new job, being at the old. You need not to deceive yourself, but listen and not be afraid that you do not like something.

I understand very well that probably most of our audience will listen to us and say: “Great! All my life I did not do what I like, I am 45 years old and my whole life, it turns out, was lived in vain. Well, now I have to drop everything and start from scratch?

However, these thoughts can continue to be carried with you until the age of 80 without changing anything..

Last year I was not several 50 years old. I was surprised that at each of them the anniversaries in one form or another spoke about the fact that they had come to this stage of their lives and realized that everything starts only now.

There were 3 such birthdays, and each hero of the day said that right now he feels that everything is possible and everything is just beginning, now he is able.

- That is, there is no need to be afraid of age?

- It seems to me that it is stupid to be afraid of the age when we all walk under God, no one knows if he will live to see the new year.

Maya Milich, Natalia Kozhina nedug. en.