In the past I have worked for companies whose employees have made my life unbearable. These work colleagues were completely two-faced, extremely imature and very annoying – the majority of them deserved a slap. At times I would even dread going to work and would feel sick whilst travelling to my office.

I would return home feeling very drained and would have little energy to do anything in the evenings. I would then decide to go to bed early but would basically just lay their worrying about the next day. This could last for hours on end and at times would last all of the night.

Luckily I am now self-employed working within various sectors including offering Tesco Voucher Codes, cheap holidays and training for foster carers.

I have read that plenty of sleep is a good way at reducing levels of stress, the question is, how does one get to sleep in the first place?

For all the stress I had to endure, I certainly was not paid enough. I was less than impressed with the way in which my co-workers, including the management, treated me – I was worth more than this – they treated me at times like some piece of dirt at the bottom of their shoes. This period was a very unhappy stage of my life and my health started to become affected.

I wanted to leave this company a lot earlier than the time that I eventually did, the problem was that I did not feel that I could afford to. I decided to save up enough money over a period of about six months so that I could then make my escape. At the same time I started to look at finding alternative work and thought long and hard about which career path I wanted to take.

On the day that I left this job, I will never forget my journey home. I could not stop smiling, I was so relieved that this nightmare was over once and for all.

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