To work or not to work - which is the lesser evil?
What is a high school diploma still worth?

One of the worst things that can happen to anyone in our society is the despair you feel when, while looking for work, you suffer setback after setback. Employers' demands keep getting higher, so in some cases not even a high school diploma is enough. Where a diploma used to be enough on its own, today the grades have to match too, ideally a perfect GPA. These high demands leave many people with job frustration.

Hope and motivation disappear

When this job frustration sets in, you lose interest in almost everything. You don't feel like getting up, you neglect the housework, and above all you no longer have any interest in sending out more applications. You simply get lazy. If you then also stand in line at the unemployment office hoping for a lot and get nowhere, your ego keeps shrinking. You get the impression that nobody wants to help you and that the right job doesn't exist anyway. Some people probably start to doubt their own abilities, because the thought of not being a useful part of society keeps burrowing deeper into their mind. Your own drive fades, your motivation gets smaller and smaller, and if you don't watch out now, you slide all the way to the bottom. Being aware of your own strengths, knowing what you want, and keeping up your motivation and willingness to perform is a virtue that is indispensable in these moments. Only with it can you steer around the hole you're in danger of falling into and keep looking toward the future with confidence.

Is the wrong job with good money the right choice?

Many people surely know the problem of earning a good to very good income while the job itself is no fun. Here, too, there is a risk of sliding into job frustration. Day after day you drag yourself to work, and day after day you crawl back home afterward. Drained, broken, simply unhappy. But quitting this job isn't an option, because you can't and don't want to give up the money. So the whole routine starts over again, until at some point a hole opens up in front of you here too, one you're in danger of falling into. True to the motto "close your eyes and push through," you still try to make the best of every situation, and you don't even notice how much you're changing, how many nice things you used to do suddenly no longer happen at all. A certain monotony sets in that consists only of work and recovering from it.

Only very few people get the perfect job. For everyone else, the task is to look for the best possible mix of work, free time and income.