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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is that you don't have to love your

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Speaker 1: job from day one. Lots of people wind up in

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Speaker 1: jobs that aren't exactly what they dreamed about being when

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Speaker 1: they were growing up, but on some level it just

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Every job is what you make of it,

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Speaker 1: and you can make a lot out of just about anything.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip, like some other recent ones, comes from Shanna

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Speaker 1: Leebowitz Gainer's new book, Don't Call It Quits. Turn the

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Speaker 1: job you have into the job you love. She notes

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Speaker 1: that some people have what's called a fit mindset. They

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Speaker 1: look for jobs that suit their skills and interests right

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Speaker 1: from the outset. The most important thing is that they

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Speaker 1: enjoy the work. People with what is called a develop mindset,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, believe you can take almost any

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Speaker 1: job and learn to like it more. Over. Time you

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Speaker 1: wind up in the job because you need the money

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Speaker 1: or you've moved someplace with your spouse and need to

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Speaker 1: find something, it's fine to start with and hopefully it

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Speaker 1: will get better. For one study, Shanna reports, researchers looked

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Speaker 1: at whether people with a fit mindset are happier or

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Speaker 1: more successful. The answer is no. People who take jobs

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Speaker 1: for other reasons wind up just as satisfied with their

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Speaker 1: work and make just as much money as people who

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Speaker 1: chose jobs they were excited about from day one. Years later,

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Speaker 1: everyone wound up feeling roughly the same way about their work,

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Speaker 1: as Shanna writes, and don't call it quit to me.

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Speaker 1: The takeaways from this research are incredibly freeing. There turns

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Speaker 1: out to be more than one way to experience passion

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Speaker 1: at work. You might find that you are good at management,

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Speaker 1: and the substance of what your organization is selling doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter as much as how you can inspire and develop people.

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Speaker 1: You might find you're good at sales. It's great to

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Speaker 1: like the product, but you can appreciate a good product

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Speaker 1: that solves people's problems, regardless of whether you grew up

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Speaker 1: dreaming about it. You might find that you've got skills

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Speaker 1: and strategy and can help your organization explore new markets

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Speaker 1: for whatever product or service you are delivering. And as

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Speaker 1: you gain seniority and earn more money and meet more people,

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Speaker 1: you will come to like any situation more. It becomes

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Speaker 1: your situation. You've got your friends, and you've got your

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Speaker 1: comfortable office set up, and you've seen certain problems before

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Speaker 1: and you've come to enjoy the challenge now. There is

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with wanting to be passionate about your work.

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Speaker 1: I really do enjoy the topic of time management, but

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Speaker 1: I probably could have developed an interest or expertise and

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Speaker 1: other topics too. All jobs change over time. I think

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Speaker 1: of myself as a writer, and I am, but podcasting

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Speaker 1: wasn't really something that existed when I started out. Now

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Speaker 1: it's a big part of my work. In many cases,

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Speaker 1: job satisfaction is as much within our control as outside

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Speaker 1: our control. You don't have to love your job from

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Speaker 1: day one. Often familiarity and growing competence leads to love.

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Speaker 1: That is a really comforting thing to know. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here is to

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Speaker 1: making the most of our top Hey, everybody, I'd love

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