Thank you for joining us for episode 546 of Live Happy Now.

Most of us spend about one-third of our lives working, which means making sure you love what you do is pretty important.

And this week's guest is here to tell us how to make that happen.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Greg Kettner, a speaker and workplace expert who is here to talk about why so many people are unhappy at work and how finding a job that provides purpose, not just a paycheck, can change the way you work. Let's have a listen. Greg, thank you for coming back on, Live Happy Now.

You are welcome, Paul. Thanks so much for having me. It's good to hear your voice. Oh, it's always good to sit down and talk to you. You always have great things to talk about. So the reason I wanted to have you on the show today is there's so much out there about unhappiness at work and it just seems to be more and more widespread. and, you know, it's a big topic, which is why we have such great sitcoms, you know, things like the office that show just how

miserable people are at work. And this is really your area of expertise. So based on what you've

seen, what do you consider the main driver of unhappiness in the workplace?

You know what? The deeper I get on this, Paul, and I think you agree with me, it's just lack

of communication, right? We're tasked to do more with less. We have AI coming at us. We're threatened

by that. You know, times are tougher. I'll review the world, and people are just like, okay,

somebody else can take up the slack. And I think it's just lack, it boils down to miscommunication

or no communication at all, right? And that leads into lack of trust. And you and everybody

listening has left jobs, not because of the job, but because of the manager. So I think,

you know, a lot of it is just non-communication that leads to people feeling like they don't

belong, that they don't matter. And a recent study suggested that people would rather have that

sense of meaning, that purpose, that feeling that they are valued and their voice matters

than a $10,000 raise,

which is completely opposite of what we thought, right? You go to college and you're like,

all right, I got to get this job. I've got to move up the ladder. I've got to make money,

get a mortgage, blah, blah, blah. But people are now realizing that we spend more than a third

of our time at work and we're humans and we can only

take so much. I've had friends who would try to, I won't say force, try to direct their children

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