Hello, I'm Su Ping Chan and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, working your way to happiness.

Lessons from the rat race on how to love your job.

I applied to be a police officer in New York.

I applied to be emergency medical technician.

And, you know, those were more stable careers in my mind because they had a pension,

but something pulled me back toward pest control.

All this week, we've been hearing about the pandemic's mental health toll on teenagers,

workers and carers around the world.

Today, we take a lighter look at what makes us happy at work and offer some simple tips to break that daily grind.

Right now during the pandemic, all those water cooler conversations aren't happening.

Each one that doesn't happen is a little bit of a hit to our happiness.

And so I think one way we can build that back in is, you know, have part of the, you know, work meeting or the staff meeting that really is like, okay, let's just chat about our days for a little bit. That's all on Business Daily

from the BBC.

Hello, my name is James Meluso and I'm a pest controller in Brooklyn, New York, and I'm responsible

for the death of probably half a million cockroaches and 10,000 rats or so in this city.

Sorry.

You know it's cruel.

Out here in this rat race

there's just one room

there aren't many people who envy what James Meluso does for a living

out here in this rat race

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