Should I Pursue a Great Money Reset?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
Audacy
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Burnout at work is bad and I think I might be ready for my “Great Money Reset” in the form of a sabbatical of some type. Can I do it?
Have a money question? Email us here
"Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Thursday, February 5th, and we are here trying to help you make better, sometimes less bad financial decisions if something's going on in your life. And it does lean financial impacts your money and you need a little bit of guidance get in touch with us |
| 0:21.8 | both mark and i are certified financial planners and we love helping you get through this |
| 0:26.9 | stuff just go to our website jill onmoney dot com click the contact us button write us a note |
| 0:32.4 | and if you'd like to join us live on the air just check the box and Mark will do everything else. Today we are going |
| 0:39.6 | to talk to West Coast Rob. Hello, West Coast Rob. What's going on? Hey, Jill. Thanks for having |
| 0:46.1 | me back. So I actually emailed you guys a question back in October and the title was, |
| 0:52.1 | should I go for the promotion? And you guys gave great advice. |
| 0:56.5 | I had kind of been saying that I was burnt out, really didn't, you know, |
| 1:00.2 | really wasn't necessarily interested in the job, but I was being pressured by management |
| 1:03.0 | to go for it. |
| 1:04.7 | And I didn't listen to you guys. |
| 1:07.0 | And they pushed and pushed. |
| 1:08.5 | And I actually did end up applying for it interviewing, |
| 1:11.2 | go through the whole process, then come to find out they pick someone else from outside the |
| 1:17.2 | organization. And so now I get to support what they were going to have us do, you know, |
| 1:22.8 | or have me do, and I get to support someone else who ended up landing the job. So in addition |
| 1:27.0 | to the burnout, now I've got, you know, another person and I've to support someone else who ended up landing the job. So in addition to the burnout, |
| 1:27.7 | now I've got, you know, another person and I've been kind of rejected from that. So that was |
| 1:33.8 | right before Christmas. And so I took time off between Christmas and New Year's. It was like 12 days. |
| 1:38.6 | And I thought, you know, usually that's good enough for a recharge. Now here I am into January, |
| 1:47.3 | into February and not getting better. |
| 1:52.3 | As a matter of fact, I kind of actually feel worse from when I emailed you guys. So really, just want some help figuring out, you know, I'm really considering a great money reset or to do |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

