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So your a hard worker. Day in and day out you find ways to improve the minuscule amount of work that you have been assigned. There are days that make eight hours seem like an eternity. Especially when you find that you just don't have enough to do. For fear of making your job look insignificant you find creative ways to ask your boss for more work. Time after time you find your self taking the slow and painful walk down the hall back to your secluded cubie only to stare at your monitor watching the clock slowly count down to freedom. You find spending time with your co-worker who is in the same boat as you helps to pass an hour at a time. Together you sit and complain about lack of work and boredom. One day you come in to the office thinking it will be another boring day, but wait, what's this there is a problem that needs to be solved.

Finally opportunity to shine. As you take the bull by the horns you begin to find your purpose again working day after day to resolve the problem. Upon completion you find your self back in the same routine, but looking out for other opportunities. You colleague had just returned from maternity leave and you had been doing her work and your own for three months. Upon discussing taxes and dependents you happen to notice that she is the same pay level that you are. Quickly working out the math in your head you realize that it not possible. With great surprise and knots in your stomach you ask her "But how are you making the same amount as me?" As your mind is racing you think about how you have been in that same job two years longer than she had, and knowing she came in one step ahead of where you once began the math still did not add up. You start to get upset remembering how you just took on new work and how when she came back your manger tried to give it to her, not that you weren't doing a good job, just because.

And that my friend is where the blow comes from. A blow so terrible where once you had no motivation to do something like exercise you now found yourself compelled to run. Run away that is. Why you ask. The simple answer is this: Your co worker who had just been away for three months on maternity leave was apparently given a raise. The tears begin streaming down your face as you think of any of the opportunities that had come your way and how you had gone above and beyond your job to tackle them, and here someone who did not have the same level of work nor made the same types of contributions had been given

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