Welcome to this week's episode of the Modern Mentor podcast, formerly known as the Get It Done Guy.

I'm Rachel Cook, your modern mentor host. Today I'll be sharing some of my favorite tips

for what to do when you want to

feel a little more love for your job. I can still picture the look on my baby boomer mother's face

the first time I posed a work-related existential question. Was she happy in her career? Was it fulfilling

and purposeful? Her response, the blankest of

stairs, told me all I needed to know. Purpose and fulfillment were things you found off the

clock. And work was work, a paycheck, a means to an end. As a younger Gen Xer with some

millennial tendencies, I understand why the question confused my mother.

But I'm part of the tribe seeking something more from my career than a paycheck, though I do love the paycheck.

Work commands a lot of my time, my energy, and my attention.

I want to do what I love and love what I do.

Not every minute of every day,

but on balance. I've learned that finding job love isn't passive. It's not about luck. It requires us to take an active role in making it happen for ourselves. So if we want work to fuel more than

just our bank accounts, what's our responsibility?

When I'm coaching someone looking to bump up the pleasure levels in their work,

here are some of the gems we cover.

First up, follow the thread to impact.

Yale professor, Amy Resneski, has done a great deal of research to understand why some people love their jobs and others don't.

Specifically, she spent time with hospital staffs and learned that some janitors considered their work to be a slog of clocking in, cleaning, and clocking out, while others expressed a sense of pride in and commitment to the

exact same work. She interviewed some janitors to understand how people doing the same work

could have such different experiences. She discovered that those who love their jobs described

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