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I'm Allison Barrett and this is the HBR Idea Cast. We're doing a special series looking

at how to find joy in our work. At a time when a lot of people are feeling burnt out, disengaged,

and unhappy in their professional lives, we're explaining what the help of author Mark

is bucking him, how to change our jobs for the better. We've already talked about the

problem of disengagement and how to figure out what makes us happy. Today we're going to

discuss how to shift our jobs so we spend more time doing those things. I've had great

managers that have helped to support me in doing those things that I've liked and I've

always been very vocal about saying, hey, I really enjoy this. Is there more opportunity

for me to do this? Or, you know, is there an opportunity to do less of this? Maybe

there's a way to delegate some of those tasks. I approached my firm with a proposal that

I focus more on delivery and supporting sales. We negotiated an agreement and a little

over a year ago, I switched to a role where I have a small sales obligation, instead of

a quite large one, and I support my colleagues and I spend more of my time really building

quiet relationships and uncovering business development opportunities and it is so much

more fun than what I was doing before. Earlier in my career was when I was ready to move

on and try something new and started to look at opportunities elsewhere and went into

my boss's office and told him about this and his response was, we don't want to see

you go, what are you interested in doing and let's see if there's a match between what

you want to do and what we need done and it turns out there was and we were able to

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