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Life Kit

Unhappy at work? How to plan your next move

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

To find a job you actually enjoy, figure out what's making you unhappy and move forward from there, says Tessa West, author of the new book Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You. West offers practical exercises to help assess your strongest skill sets, your stressors and what you need next from your career.

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Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

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If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

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I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

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I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

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You're listening to Life Kit

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from NPR.

0:31.0

Hey everybody, it's Mary L.

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I wonder if you've ever had a moment like this.

0:36.0

You're brushing your teeth or driving your car or riding the subway,

0:40.0

getting ready for work, and you think,

0:42.0

what am I doing?

0:43.3

I hate this job. Is this what I signed up for?

0:46.4

It's a little like looking over at your spouse in bed and thinking who are you?

0:50.3

You aren't the person I married, you aren't the person I became committed to at some point in time.

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That's Tessa West, a psychology professor at NYU, an author of the book Job Therapy,

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Finding Work that Works for You. A recent Gallup survey found that employee engagement in the U.S. has sunk to an 11-year low,

1:08.0

with a growing number of people feeling dissatisfied and unmotivated at work.

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If you were feeling disappointed... feeling dissatisfied and unmotivated at work.

1:12.8

If you are feeling disappointed,

1:16.7

if you have anxious boredom, if you're experiencing on we

1:20.3

in the workplace, just this kind of low-level malaise around your career or your job, you're

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