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The Minimalists

How do I transition out of a dead-end career?

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss how to move on from a dead-end career with author Alex Banayan. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0

Dominimists.

0:03.5

Hari says any suggestions for transitioning.

0:06.6

This is a 40 in slip here, but I like it.

0:09.2

Transitioning out of a deadbeat career.

0:13.1

I think you mean dead in career, Hari, but dead beat career.

0:17.6

I like it better.

0:18.6

That's for real.

0:20.5

So, so I think that is, I think you couple that question with sort of

0:25.0

Kate's question.

0:26.9

And in fact, if I were to add anything to Kate's question, I sometimes

0:29.8

figure out what is enough because sometimes I learned this also in the corporate

0:33.2

world. I took a step back toward the very end because I realized I got this

0:36.4

promotion that I didn't even want.

0:38.2

But I ever once said, well, you'd be stupid if you didn't take this promotion.

0:41.8

I love it.

0:42.1

You'd be stupid if you didn't, but would I be smart if I did?

0:44.8

Right.

0:45.9

I think that's a good thing.

0:47.2

That's good.

0:47.8

And and actually, no, I was, I was stupid either way.

0:51.7

It was just more stupid to take the, to take the promotion.

0:55.1

And I think we very rarely ask ourselves, what is enough?

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