How to Know When It's Time to Break Up With Your Job

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

You have a relationship with family, with friends, with a romantic partner. You may not have thought about it this way, but you also have a relationship with your job — a quite serious one, in fact; after all, you spend a third of your life working. Just like the relationship you have with your significant other, there are ups and downs with your relationship with your job. It can start out with exciting honeymoon feelings, but along the way, you can end up drifting apart from your job, lose interest in it, or not feel appreciated. And there can come a time when you start wondering if you and your job should part ways. Here to help you figure out if you should break up with your job is Tessa West, a professor of psychology and the author of Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You. Tessa interviewed thousands of people who have recently switched jobs or undergone career changes and found that there are five forms that job dissatisfaction typically takes. Today on the show, Tessa shares those five job dissatisfaction profiles, and how to know when you need to try to move into a new role within your company, or move on altogether and even change careers.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. You have a relationship with family, with friends with a romantic partner. on the one in fact. After all, you spend a third of your life working. Just like the
0:23.8	relationship you have with their significant other, their ups and downs with
0:26.6	your relationship with your job. It can start out with exciting honeymoon feelings,
0:29.9	but along the way you can end up drifting apart from your job, lose interest in it, or not feel appreciated.
0:35.5	And there can come a time when you start wondering you and your job should part ways.
0:39.5	Here to help you figure out if you should break up with your job is Tessa West,
0:43.2	Professor Psychology and the author of Job Therapy,
0:46.4	Finding Work that Works for You.
0:48.4	Tess interviewed thousands of people who recently switched jobs or undergone career changes
0:52.2	and found that there are five forms that
0:53.6	job dissatisfaction typically takes. Taines show, Tessa shares those five job
0:58.2	dissatisfaction profiles and how to know we need to try to move into a new role
1:01.8	within your company or move on
1:03.4	altogether and even change careers. After the show's over check at our show notes at Awimp.
1:08.1	I.S. slash job therapy. All right Tessa West welcome back to the show.
1:13.0	Thank you again for having me. All right, Tessa West, welcome back to the show.
1:23.0	Thank you again for having me.
1:25.0	So we had you on last time to discuss your book,
1:27.0	Jerks at work, and it's how to deal with those jerks
1:29.5	that you sometimes encounter at the office.
1:32.2	You got a new book out called Job Therapy where you dig into our relationship with our job.
1:38.2	And I think a lot of people typically don't think about having a relationship with their work.
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