Feel Stuck At Work | 6 Tactics To Get Unstuck in Your Career

Everybody feels stuck at work from time to time. You feel like you don’t enjoy doing the work. You feel like you’re not growing, or like you’re not challenged anymore. According to a study by Oracle, more than 75% of people feel “stuck” personally and professionally. That’s led directly to a phenomenon called “quiet quitting” — what we used to call disengagement. Too many people have already quit but keep showing up for the paycheck.

And when you think about getting unstuck in your career, you might default to looking for new work. But there’s an alternative. You chose that job for a reason. And often the secret to getting unstuck in your career isn’t to look for new work, but to look at your work with new eyes. To rediscover the reason you chose that job.

In this article, we’ll examine six ways to get unstuck in your career mostly by re-examining something about your current job.

0:00 Introduction
1:51 Find New Inputs
3:26 Focus On Your Who
4:47 Volunteer For New Tasks
6:08 Reshuffle Your Personal Board Of Directors
7:43 Talk To Your Boss
9:15 Make A Move
10:38 Conclusion

Five of these six tactics work because they’re not about changing the external, they’re about changing the internal. The secret to getting unstuck is rarely to change your job; it’s much more often to change yourself—to find new ways to feel motivated and new challenges to take on, which will help you do your best work ever.

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//ABOUT DAVID
One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever.

He is the best-selling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, the Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and CBS This Morning. Since 2017, Burkus has been ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times. He’s worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and even the US Naval Academy.

A former business school professor, Burkus holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology from the University of Oklahoma, and a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University.

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if you do leave the job...you need to run towards can't eleave the job because you are looking to escape. You need to know what you want so go into the next job with a purpose

[jano]

I tend to feel stuck quite often, which is why I change jobs frequently. Within Software engineering a new job can mean new challenges but it can also be quite similar if you have worked with a variety of languages and tools. Problem is talking with your boss never works, unless they want to get rid of you. They have put in work to find someone to fill a gap and will do everything they can to keep you there. I have asked for new responsibility or to change team a few times and always end up being denied that possibility (even when I have had managers wanting me to start in a different team) which ends up in me finding a new job. Will most likely never raise the subject again since it never works (unless it favors your boss).

I would probably try the following
1. Learn the job and network.
2. Constantly take the hardest tasks or tasks that are new to you.
3. Ask for a mentor.
4. Try to see if there are any opportunities in the company but without letting your boss know you are bored. A boss who knows you will quit will never invest in you.
5. If no 4 doesn't work change jobs, I would not wait for too long.