What a full-time job teaches us?

Have you ever felt stuck in your 9-5 job? Most of you would have gone or been going through the phase and its completely natural to feel this way. But have you ever wondered what could be more worse than that?

Sometimes due to all the fuzz and peer pressure around us we are forced to feel ourselves a particular way. Usually people end up taking most valuable things for granted due to the society around us.

According to my experiences, a job is the first step to discipline. I learnt a lot from my job and still have a long way to go.

Have you ever rewinded the feeling and excitement which you got when you got your very first job. It must be something like this...;) rightt!! lol....

No matter how far we go in our lives, there are some first moments which are precious. Your first job is one of them. I feel that without starting out with a proper full time job, a person can never truly learn some life values. Let us discuss the 4 major things we learn from a job.

Patience

Lets get honest. Without enough patience we will never be able to deal with bad situations around us, be it a full time job or relationships. Once we start working in a job we get to know the real world. We get exposed to a lot of people even before getting a full-time job, but the point is we don't learn professionalism until actually stepping out into a job. A job is the only place where you deal with a lot of people of different age groups unlike school or university where you meet people of same age group.

Discipline

I feel whatever talent one may have, but if they lack discipline he/she may never be successful. To learn a skill, one switches into learning mode of the brain. But to stick to a certain habit for a consistent period of time, we need discipline. A full-time job makes sure that you become a good person in life who follow certain rules and stick to it.

Job Security

Now this may get little tricky. I know what you are thinking. No job has real job security. No job is going to keep you for life, neither are you going to stay there for life. But if we started to feel vulnerable in the very initial years of our life, then how one will gain confidence with time. Every job teaches you some thing more, maybe a little more than your own business. Being a part of a company which is well established and good job security is a boon. Aren't you learning anything from it? Yes ofcourse. Even if you are not interested to have your own business in the future you can just sit back and relax without getting nervous about the current situation of the company, its performance and etc. You can learn the organizational structure and business model of your company and how they are dealing with losses, downfalls etc.

Social skills

Social skills are a set of skills which enables you to communicate with the other people. In this digital era, while all the people are connected and networking and growing business, I feel that social skills are a must. A job forces you to work with people you dont like, it forces you to be open and expressive in a place where you dont want to be. It teaches you to deal with people in a diplomatic way.

You learn all the work politics, you handle stress, you handle the long commutes, what not..

"You can't appreciate the good days without the bad ones"

Well we will never be able to appreciate a rich and luxurious life if we are born rich. The same formula goes here. The work the effort we put into jobs teaches us so many real things in life which only a job can teach us no matter what. It teaches us never to take anything for granted. It teaches us to obey all the rules no matter how strict they are. And once you get to know everything, you automatically grow into a person who is ready to venture into a life with his own ideas, a life with uncertainty, moreover a life with ample of opportunities.