Episode 7: Vocational Wheel

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2011

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin relate to Richard–a listener in the middle of a quarter life crisis working jobs he doesn't like–with stories from their pasts, suggestions to combat the cascade of seriousness, and some first steps for breaking out of the vocational wheel.

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0:00.0	How you doing, having a good week?
0:08.2	Yeah, pretty good so far.
0:09.2	What about you?
0:10.2	How's the weather out there in San Francisco?
0:12.4	Things are nice in my private office.
0:14.0	It's, I've closed the window.
0:15.4	You'll still hear the street car.
0:16.6	It's very pleasant.
0:17.9	It's supposed to be mostly cloudy today, so that's an improvement.
0:23.1	And it'll be in the 50s, which is nice.
0:26.3	How about you?
0:27.3	What's it like there?
0:28.3	It's a little surprisingly a little bit cooler than anyone here was expecting in the mid-70s
0:35.2	today.
0:36.2	Wow.
0:37.2	Nice.
0:38.2	It's nice.
0:39.2	Yeah.
0:40.2	I miss the warmth sometimes, but not enough to be involved.
0:44.1	That's, you know, I really, there's, I think Mississippi, maybe West Virginia, and the
0:49.1	old man.
0:50.1	The old man.
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