What to Do if You Fall Out of Love With Your Job

WSJ Your Money Briefing

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Leaving a job can be just as messy as leaving a romantic partner. New York University professor of psychology Tessa West joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how relationship science can help you avoid common mistakes and guide you through the stages of falling out of love with your career. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is dedication? People ask how your children learn how to ride a bike and you didn't.
0:05.0	I just created an environment when they taught themselves and all I had to do is be there.
0:08.5	That's dedication.
0:10.0	Visit fatherhood.gov to hear more brought to you byS. Department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council.
0:18.0	Here's your money briefing for Thursday, September 12th.
0:20.8	I'm J. R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:26.0	Getting as of a romantic relationship can be messy.
0:30.0	Their soul searching, sadness, frustration, or maybe just the need for something new.
0:35.4	Many workers experience the same feelings when they want to end their relationship with their job.
0:41.2	Are you really sensitive to patterns of intermittent reinforcement at work?
0:46.0	Does it take almost nothing for you to get pulled back in and can you predict when your boss is going
0:50.4	to be super nice to you or give you those kinds of benefits in much the same way
0:53.8	that having your boyfriend show up and give you flowers after a fight probably isn't the
0:58.2	best signal that things are going well.
1:00.5	Wall Street Journal Contributor and New York University Professor of psychology, Tessa West, will join us to discuss how to break up with your career.
1:08.0	After the break. What is dedication?
1:15.0	What is dedication?
1:17.0	People ask.
1:18.0	How your children learn how to ride a bike and you didn't.
1:20.0	I just create an environment where they taught themselves
1:22.0	and all I had to do is be there.
1:23.7	That's dedication. Visit fatherhood.gov to hear more brought to you by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the
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