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Thanks for listening. How do you start your work day? Maybe you open up your inbox, messages are in from last night and there's a meeting in 30 minutes.

A project you said you'd work on yesterday still sits on your to-do list.

Or maybe you start by clocking in, heading back to a storage room,

there are items to unpack from a palette that you'll later put on the store shelves.

Or it starts with the kids play area when you need to clean and prepare for the toddlers you care

for, or with a house visit for an elderly patient aging in place.

And between that work, there's other work, forms to fill out, reports about what you've done,

messages that need a response, if you have kids, there's the work at home, unpaid that it takes to get them ready and off to

school. It can be a lot to do and a lot to keep our heads in all at once. So why has work turned into such a grind for so many Americans?

What does overwork and stress from work do to us and how can we change work for the better

no matter what career we're in?

We dig for answers to those questions after the break.

I'm Jen White.

You're listening to the 1A Podcast where we get to the heart of the story.

Stay with us, we've got a lot to get into.

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