I want to welcome all of you to this new edition of the newsletter written by me, Karl Perera owner of more-selfesteem.com and hope that you find it useful and maybe a little enlightening. This month's topic is your job (or lack of it) and the effect it has on your self esteem. With so much unemployment and job dissatisfaction it is a huge subject and I hope you enjoy the article. 

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Karl Perera

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This month's article: Attacks on your Self Esteem, part 2: Your Job 

Few things have such a profound effect on how we view and feel about ourselves as the job we hold.

Your self esteem is very much tied up with the job you have and there are many factors associated with the work you do every day which can boost or lower your self esteem. Let's take a look at some of these factors and just how they affect your attitude and confidence. 

The link between self esteem and the work you do

Here's a list of how the two are connected:

• Your Job Title - a title including Manager or Executive or Coordinator can make you feel better about yourself due to increased sense of status. Likewise the opposite is also important, no-one likes to be Trainee or Junior.
  
• The kind of work you do - influences how you believe others may view you. Your job is a label which brings with it an image. You may feel positive or negative influenced by this image.
  
• What is involved in your day to day job - if you see that what you are doing is helpful to others or in some way worthwhile and a contribution to society you will experience higher self esteem. 
  
• Your work environment - a pleasant, modern, relatively stress-free and clean place of work will lift you and make you happier and more positive.
• Your wage - whatever you think about the importance of money as regards your job it will indicate to you and others your relative value as an employee and as a person.
  
• How you are treated by colleagues and superiors - this will obviously have an effect on how you feel you are valued as a person.
  
• The company or institution you work for - like the job itself companies have an image and a status of there own. You may feel very positive about working for a particular company, the opposite could also be true.
  
• The qualifications or experience required for the job - if your job is a highly qualified and/ or experienced position you will feel that you are a valuable member of your company and you will have a better attitude towards your position. Of course not everyone may share your view!

There are others we could add to the list but I think these are the most important. With every point above it is ultimately your own attitude that causes you to have high or low self esteem. 

What to do to improve your job-related self esteem   

The answer lies with improving your attitude towards every aspect of your job. If you change the way you think about the work you do and how you do it you will feel better about what you achieve in your job, this in turn will improve how you perform your job and this will bring more recognition and enjoyment increasing your self esteem still further.

• Training
• Be unique, don't compare yourself with others
• Don't turn down new challenges or opportunities
• Don't accept being treated poorly, speak up
• Focus on the positive aspects of what you do
• List your strengths
• If your not happy improve your situation
• Ask for what you want
• Treat everyone with respect
• Listen to others
• Be positive 
• Make helpful suggestions
• Learn to say no

I wish you success at work! Until next month, part three will be about self esteem and honesty....

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  See you next month for part two....

  Karl Perera

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