The anxious achiever is the podcast about your mental health and your work where

leaders from top companies, entrepreneurs, athletes, celebrities and leading

experts share how they've managed through anxiety, depression and other mental

health challenges and how they've become better leaders in the process. You'll

laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel seen and you'll learn great tools and skills and I

guarantee you're gonna look at leadership in a new way. Come find out why we won

the Mental Health America 2023 Media Award. Get the anxious achiever wherever

you find your podcasts. Hey, it's Jesse. I'm bringing you an episode from the

archive this week. Jessica Powell landed a dream job. But after a while, it just

it wasn't her dream job. I'm so sure quit. Here's her story. From the editorial

team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday, a show about the

changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. Some people are born

knowing exactly what they want to do. The path is obvious. But for a lot of us, it's

much more fuzzy. We end up in our first jobs for all sorts of reasons. Mom told us

to go to law school. Uncle Bob offered us an internship and if things work out,

we stick around. Maybe the money is good or maybe we're traveling up the career

ladder. And inevitably, we reach a point where we ask ourselves, is this really the

right way for me to spend my time? Do I even like it? Earlier this fall, I talked

about this kind of career crisis with my friend, Jerry Kalona, the job coach. And it's

at that moment that's ripe with possibility and it's scary. And there are many, many

human beings faced with the privilege of being able to come to that moment of

potential actualization and choose to walk away from it. And I get that it's

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