Is there any cons if I want to work for money and benefits only?
I am in a contract role in the science sector doing routine testing and I don’t know why but I find myself no longer wanting to put in effort in my job and wanted to coast around.
The thing is, there is quite limited things to learn as my colleagues are all busy with work and couldn’t take time off from their daily tasks and routine work to train me in newer stuff, resulting in me doing the same old tasks everyday, which I am quite sick of. The only good thing of this would be because I am not trained in a lot of stuff, I can’t perform the more important tasks which means that I can get a bit of time to slack.
In the meantime, I am job hunting for something that is better than my current role, preferably something that pays more and have more benefits than my measly contract position. Compared to my previous position as a trainee in the same company and department, I have lesser benefits now and took a slight pay cut in my current contract role. Somehow I don’t know why but I think I am too fixated with salary and other benefits that I think I would be happier with more salary and benefits? I can’t think of anything else that would made me more happy than more salary and benefits.
Currently, I am required to help out in my previous team when I was a trainee when they are having manpower issues and also do my routine work in my current role and I am wondering is it worth to do so much work when my pay is not so much?
Recently, with colleagues clearing leave and taking MC, sometimes I regret coming to work because there is so much work to do, and I don’t want to help my colleagues who are on site to do the routine work because I want to slack. I know that I sound selfish but I am quite sick of helping the team to fight fire on all grounds.
I want to have a 1 to 1 session with my boss but I don’t know what to tell her. Would she be angry that I am actually a slacker who just wants be paid well only?