Hi there, welcome to the Mathias J Barker podcast. My name is Mathias. I'm a psychotherapist in Spokane, Washington, and this is kind of a space where I reflect on the conversations that I'm having throughout the week in my clinical practice.

Just talking about life and what makes life meaningful.

I'm talking about hardship, talking about values, all sorts of things.

So this is maybe a place where I synthesize those ideas and I think through different topics. And so this week we're going to be talking about work. We talk about career. And I'd have to say this is probably one of my favorite

episodes even to date because I don't know this was just something that was

maybe personally meaningful to me something that really released me from a lot of

the anxiety felt around organizing your

career in order to maximize your satisfaction in life and so there's just a lot of

different contextual elements that are worth considering when thinking about should I quit my job

should I reorganize my career how much weight am I putting into my career to give me

personal satisfaction that's maybe the topic of today's video.

This week I'm thinking a lot about jobs.

A lot of clients have been just kind of struggling with the idea of going back to work and realizing that they're not really enjoying the job that they're in, the career path that they're on. Should I go back to school?

Should I be maybe looking for something a little different?

Maybe they have kind of like a dream or a,

I don't know, maybe like an artistic project or an entrepreneurial idea that they feel like

Maybe I should maybe this is the time to really push into that and people have just kind of been seeking guidance around the idea of like should I quit my job should I be looking for something different

and as I've been reflecting on that with people I've been really just thinking about I don't know just kind of how this

lockdown has really forced a lot of us to kind of take a

step back and evaluate kind of the pieces in our lives the factors that are

contributing to the things that make life meaningful and we're trying to

understand you know is this the best way to

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