My Job is Crushing Me Mentally

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The only thing that stresses Sara out more than her current job is telling her father that she wants to change careers. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast you two can participate in my live radio program heard weekdays from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 1 11
0:12.5	Sarah, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	I talked to Laura. How are you?
0:18.0	Good. What's happening?
0:21.0	Hey, so I know you like to get straight to the point. My question for you today is when is it okay to choose my mental health over a career?
0:33.0	I'm 29 and wait a minute, wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa, when you ask a question, you got to wait for the answer.
0:42.0	Okay, so your question was when is it okay today?
0:48.0	Today and what do you want to you want to come back at me with my answer today is the day to hold your mental health above a career today?
1:06.0	Can I ask one more question?
1:09.0	You can ask four more questions after that. Dicey would go ahead.
1:15.0	Okay, I know it might sound ridiculous since I am an adult approaching 30, but how do I deal with judgey parents about this?
1:28.0	Okay, you let them be judgey.
1:31.0	And when they're being judgey, that means they're caring less about you and more about their image of what they want in a child.
1:44.0	And that's not nice.
1:50.0	Yeah, that makes sense. Okay.
1:52.0	It's not nice and you and I hope you have other people around you who will help you survive the onslaught of negativity that your parents might give you.
2:02.0	So are we talking about you think you made not a great choice in a career?
2:08.0	Tell me how it's causing you such stress.
2:13.0	Yeah, I think it's the choice that I made for my career.
2:18.0	How did you come to make this choice? How did you come to make this choice?
2:32.0	This is kind of sad, but I feel like I stumbled upon it and it is something that my father, same career that he has, which is part of the reason like I threw that judgment.
2:46.0	But I studied this in college and then I just kind of jumped into it right after college and it just I've found that it doesn't fulfill me and it's a little bit too high stress for me.
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