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Today's tip is that you shouldn't leave the workforce when you just hate your job.

While leaving the workforce is one way to solve that problem, it is entirely possible that there is a better job out there.

If you choose to leave the workforce, that should be something you are running to.

You don't want to be running away from something else.

So I have heard from a few parents recently, generally mothers, who had left the workforce for a while to stay home with their kids.

They had been miserable in their jobs and had young children, and so staying home seemed like a reasonable and socially acceptable option.

A few months into the gig, they realized they didn't really want to be stay-at-home

parents long term. They turned out to have big professional ambitions. The problem was the old job,

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