The first question is how people end up in jobs, or indeed entire industries, they want to get out of.
The new year (is it just me or is 2015 already flying by?) is often a time when people take stock, whether that be reassessing their relationships, health or careers.
So it was interesting to see a recently released Seek survey claim 76 per cent of Kiwis are actively seeking
a new job or monitoring the job market. And two-thirds say they want to work in a completely different industry.
Although the survey was of just 2800 people, that still seems an extremely high proportion of unhappy or unsettled workers.
For some, "a job's a job". As long as it's steady and puts food on the table, they are not too worried. Plus we must keep in mind there are plenty of people who can't find a job and would love to take the roles those in them sometimes moan about.
But Seek has calculated people spend on average 13 years of their life at work. That could mean 13 years of wishing you were somewhere else, counting down the hours until knocking off time, and dreading Sunday nights (presuming you are not working the weekend as well).
