06: The Importance of Caring Less About Your Job
The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast
Kelly
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🗓️ 2 September 2014
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever thought about quitting your job because you were overwhelmed? Throwing in the towel because you had too much to do, and couldn't get it all done?
Did you ever consider...caring less?
That's quite a radical concept for us HSPs. It goes against everything we feel. We're generally loyal, hard workers who care deeply about what we do. But our conscientiousness can bleed over into perfectionism, and when we can't meet our impossible standards, we'd sometimes rather quit than underperform.
In episode 6 of the HSP Podcast, I talk about how caring less can make your job more bearable and won't hurt you as much as you might think.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Highly Sensitive Person book by Dr. Elaine Aron
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| 0:00.0 | This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who care deeply about everything. |
| 0:11.5 | Join me on a journey to accept the way we intensely experience the world. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello, world, thanks for tuning in. This is episode number six, and I'm your host Kelly. In this |
| 0:25.7 | podcast, I talk about my real life experiences, being a highly sensitive person, and learning |
| 0:30.8 | more about being a highly sensitive person in hopes that other people can relate and it will |
| 0:35.5 | help them in their lives. Today's episode is about carrying less at your office job. |
| 0:41.3 | Years ago, when I moved from Michigan to New York, I got some temp jobs to try to get my |
| 0:45.8 | foot in the door to get a full-time job. At one of these temp assignments, I was miserable. |
| 0:51.2 | I could hear the person managing me insulting other employees, yelling at them. |
| 0:56.0 | And of course, as an HSP, the hostile environment affected me a lot. Plus, all I was doing was |
| 1:01.3 | stuffing envelopes, so it was really boring. I complained about this temp job to my husband, |
| 1:05.8 | and he said, call your temp agency and quit the assignment. It's not worth you being miserable. |
| 1:10.7 | And my first reaction was, I can't do that. |
| 1:14.1 | I committed to the assignment. |
| 1:15.5 | They were counting on me. |
| 1:17.0 | I don't quit things. |
| 1:19.0 | Then he asked me, what's more important? |
| 1:21.0 | Your mental health or finishing a temp job for some company that couldn't care less about you. |
| 1:26.8 | He was right. There was no reason for me to |
| 1:29.7 | care so much about this job. So what if my quitting inconvenience the company or the temp agency? |
| 1:35.8 | Who cares? That's a difficult phrase for an HSP to add to their vocabulary. It sounds rude and |
| 1:42.4 | dismissive. The opposite of how we naturally feel, we care so |
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