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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

Happy New Year, everyone.

Over the past two years now, we've learned so much about how to adapt to changes that are just

mostly beyond our control, but this year brings a new approach.

The pandemic hasn't gone anywhere, but things they feel different.

We are different. Sure, we can't control over the future any better than we've ever been able to,

but we've learned so much by this point about how to manage through ambiguity,

and this is the year that we choose change. It's the year of reinvention.

This kind of change is at the very heart of Hello Monday.

If you want to have interesting work that pays well over the long arc of your career,

you have to be willing to take risks, to learn new ways of doing things,

to reinvent yourself. And as you all know, I'm walking the walk here.

I spent two decades as a happily employed magazine writer at a media company,

and then I gave it all up to make podcasts at a tech company.

Different job, different medium, different industry.

Best thing I've done, but how was it scary at the time?

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