352: My Spouse Controls My Online Life! | Feedback Friday

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Out of work since late last year, you were finally making progress on the job hunt until COVID-19 locked everything down. Now you've been making connections and finding opportunities on LinkedIn that seem promising. The problem is, your spouse is nervous that anything you post there will somehow hurt your chances for getting a job; it seems her resentment that you're not working -- added to the constant proximity of quarantining responsibly -- puts the world through a very negative lens and anything you say is stupid.

So now she's monitoring your LinkedIn account from hers and picking fights with you every time you post anything there. Should you find another place to live for now while pursuing work, or should you just let your spouse control your online life and make that pursuit more difficult? We tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!

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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:

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Sadly, your spouse is simultaneously resentful that you don't have a job and embarrassed that you post to LinkedIn looking for one -- and it causes fights that last for days. Should you find your own space for a while or let them control your online life?
Your significant other passed away in front of you at home, and now you're dealing with PTSD on top of grief in the very place where it happened. What can you do to move forward?
With the biological clock ticking, are you selfish or stupid to try for a child in the middle of a pandemic?
Laura Gassner Otting recommended cutting off toxic people in your life who don't support or "cheerlead" for you. Sadly, you've never been the cheerleading type -- should you worry that you've been a toxic person all along without knowing?
You're a South Indian with a supposedly hard-to-pronounce name. You don't mind people mispronouncing it (because the effort is respectful), but you do mind the "cutesy" nicknames foisted upon you by people you barely know. How can you get people to take you seriously enough to use your actual name?
When the family relies on you so much, how can you find the time to get a place of your own and become independent for the first time in your young life?
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0:00.0	Welcome to Feedback Friday.
0:05.3	I'm your host Jordan Harbinger, and I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.
0:09.4	On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's
0:13.0	most brilliant people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact
0:17.6	your own life and those around you.
0:19.4	If you are new to the show on Fridays, we give advice to you and answer a list of questions.
0:23.2	The rest of the week we have long form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing
0:27.3	folks from spies to CEOs, athletes to authors to thinkers and performers in this week.
0:32.3	We had Dan Heath with his new project on solving problems upstream.
0:36.9	I thought this was kind of interesting.
0:37.9	Dan and Chip Heath, they write all these business books, of course, but this upstream problem
0:41.7	solving is particularly apropos and important right now in a pandemic when we know from
0:47.4	the Dennis Carroll episode, which we are to think in February.
0:50.4	We know we could have prevented this disease with more upstream thinking and we could have
0:55.0	actually solved the problem because they saw this thing coming.
0:58.1	They saw it in the animals.
0:59.1	We are going to get that eventually and then everyone is like, that's going to suck and
1:02.2	then we did nothing about it.
1:03.7	That's what happens with a lot of diseases.
1:05.3	We can expect more of that until we start more upstream thinking.
1:08.8	Dan Heath episode was legit in my opinion and we had General Martin Dempsey on leadership.
1:14.8	Yes, I know a leadership show with a general big surprise, but I found him actually quite
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