50 million people did in fact quit a job in the last year.

That number is essentially twice what it was 10 years ago.

So this is a long-term change that's going on and add on top of that the work from anywhere so that a

third of Americans are now working at part-time at home. Add all those numbers

together. Basically a hundred million Americans will sit down with someone they love.

Today, tonight, this summer, this year, and say,

honey, I'm not happy with what I'm doing and I want to do work that makes me happy.

That is a massive change.

That is a massive change. But these days there were a lot of conversations, including on this

podcast about the disruption and reshaping of work life and the

re-shaping of the workforce as a result of the pandemic.

Bruce Filer is just out with a new book, The Search,

Finding Meaningful Work in a post-career world.

Based on years of research on this topic,

his research actually predates the pandemic

as he had seen career trends emerging going back years,

but the pandemic, of of course was a natural inflection

point whenever Bruce is working on a book I'm always curious he's the author of seven

New York Times bestsellers including life is in the transitions the the secrets of happy families, and the Council of

Dads. His book Walking the Bible describes his 10,000-mile journey, retracing the five books of Moses through the desert. The book spent a year and a half

on the New York Times bestseller list. His book, Where God was Born, describes his

trek visiting biblical sites throughout Israel, Iran, and Iraq.

...