Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McKitis.

Along with, thanks for joining us for episode

428 with Ellen RuPaul Shell.

Ellen is a writer who has really done some time thinking, researching, exploring the nature of work,

where it's going, how we experience it.

So you'll get some cool thought-provoking tidbits,

including one, why no employer could give you meaning.

Two, what people actually want in a job, and three three how and why to engage in job

crafting so if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to

as we've referenced here it's over at awesome at your job dot com slash

epp for to eight now here is Ellen's story

Ellen Rupel Schell is a correspondent for the Atlantic and co directs the

graduate program in science journalism at Boston University she's written for

the New York Times of Washington Post,

the Guardian, the Smithsonian Slate, the LA Times, the Boston Globe,

oh scientific American and science, just about every cool place you'd want to write

if you were a writer.

So thanks to Ellen for hanging out and thanks to our sponsors.

Check them out.

Now here is Ellen.

...