March 4, 2024
By Cianna Garrison
Excerpted from the True You Journal featured on Truity.com
Picture this: your coworker just got the promotion you secretly hoped to land. They're not any better than you, nor any more qualified, yet they were chosen over you. You can't help but feel jealous. It seems like they're light years ahead of you, even though they started in the same position after you did. Feeling resentful just thinking about it?
This kind of green-eyed monster may be unpleasant, but it's normal to look at someone else's success and feel pangs of envy about it. We live in the age of comparison. It's an everyday exercise to look at LinkedIn or glance over the cubicle wall and wonder why we're not jet-setting off to Europe or shaking hands with industry leaders like they are.
But what happens when those feelings of envy start to take over? When you can't seem to shake off the resentment and it's impacting your work and personal life? That's when career envy becomes a problem, as our experts explain.
“We've all been ingrained with the fact that envy is bad, and we should never feel it. And if we do, we shouldn't share it with anybody. It would be a rare human being who would be telling the truth if they didn't feel envious at some point in their life. So it's okay. It's just figuring out how to make it productive.”
— Julie Jansen, executive career coach, workplace expert and author
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Cianna Garrison holds a B.A. in English from Arizona State University and works as a freelance writer. She fell in love with psychology and personality type theory back in 2011. Since then, she has enjoyed continually learning about the 16 personality types. As an INFJ, she lives for the creative arts, and even when she isn’t working, she’s probably still writing.