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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that all jobs have ups and downs. But if you find yourself unhappy for a significant proportion of your work week, it might be time to look for something else.

Ideally, you spend no more than the equivalent of one day a week on things you really don't want to do. That is, if you like all but 20% of your job, you've got to keep her. If you dislike more than 20%, you might want to see what else is out there.

So I started thinking about this topic recently when someone asked a group of us what we felt was an acceptable ratio of positive to negative feelings about a job.

In my younger years, I might have said this ratio should be infinite. That is, you should like absolutely everything about your job and dislike nothing.

As I have gotten older, I have realized that disliking zero is going to be tough to pull off even in almost ideal situations.

We are seldom 100% happy in life. You can be sitting on a tropical beach watching a beautiful sunset while sitting next to the love of your life and still be thinking, hmm, my toe itches.

Such is the human condition. You can love your job and still find your weekly meeting with Dave from accounting, tedious.

But Dave isn't quitting and neither are you. And so here we are.

I'll also note that sometimes we think the problem is with the job and it turns out to be more internal.

I have followed some situations where people have quit jobs because they just can't trust their co-workers and they're always crashing right before deadlines.

Then they find different jobs and it turns out that you just can't trust these co-workers either and they are still always crashing right before deadlines.

And maybe. Just maybe. These two situations have something very specific and common.

Namely, the person experiencing them. That said, you have to balance the reality that nothing is perfect.

Against the truth that as far as we know, you only get one wild and precious life as the poet Mary Oliver would put it.

It would be one thing to be miserable day in and day out if you were assigned to job at age 20 and required by law to keep it until retirement.

But if you are listening to this podcast, then you don't live in a society like that. There are millions of jobs out there.

Many of them are currently open. Within any given industry, there are often lots of companies, some of which have vastly different cultures from others.

Within any company, some departments are probably a lot better to work for than other departments to say nothing of individual managers.

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