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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 to figure out exactly what makes you miserable.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes a job might be salvageable if you solve the

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Speaker 1: right problems. Today's tip comes from Shanna Leibowitz Gainer's new book,

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Speaker 1: don't call it quits. Turn the job you have into

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Speaker 1: the job you love. Shanna points out that in many cases,

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Speaker 1: when people quit their jobs to take new ones, they

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Speaker 1: wind up with the exact same problems. That's because no

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Speaker 1: job is perfect and many jobs can be improved if

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Speaker 1: you take the initiative. Sometimes the right move is to quit,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes it isn't, and you want to make sure

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Speaker 1: you've addressed to anything changeable before you uproot your whole life.

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Speaker 1: So she suggests if you are feeling miserable, list what

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Speaker 1: are your least favorite parts of Your Work Day? Answering

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Speaker 1: this question is important, she writes, because, well, it's likely

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Speaker 1: that you spend a lot of time thinking about how

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Speaker 1: terrible your job is. It's possible that you don't know

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Speaker 1: exactly what's making you miserable. So be specific about the

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Speaker 1: tasks and interactions that drain you or feel creatively stifling.

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Speaker 1: Shana goes on to note that you shouldn't discount small stuff.

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Speaker 1: Some of the most enlightening research I've covered, she says,

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Speaker 1: shows how much people underestimate the pain of commuting. Or

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Speaker 1: maybe it's something else, an overflowing inbox, sitting too close

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Speaker 1: to the trash can or being in a really bad

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Speaker 1: desk chair. Maybe you work somewhere where they pipe in

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Speaker 1: terrible music, where there are televisions constantly on so you

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Speaker 1: can't think. You might also note exactly how these least

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Speaker 1: favorite aspects of your job make you feel board frustrated angry.

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Speaker 1: If there are particular tasks that are making you miserable,

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Speaker 1: try asking yourself this question. Why do you think your

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Speaker 1: managers have you performed these tasks? It's probably not just

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Speaker 1: because you hate them. Is a task advancing a core

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Speaker 1: organizational goal? If so, you can remind yourself of this

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Speaker 1: and it might make the work feel more meaningful, if

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Speaker 1: not necessarily better. But if not, maybe you can ask

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Speaker 1: if you could stop doing it or if you could

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Speaker 1: do it differently. If you talked with your manager about it,

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Speaker 1: what do you think he or she would say? Could

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Speaker 1: you make a good argument. In any case, sometimes the

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Speaker 1: most miss herrible moments of our day have solutions that

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Speaker 1: don't involve quitting. There are better desk chairs out there.

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Speaker 1: Maybe nobody likes having those televisions on and you can

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Speaker 1: all lobby to turn them off. Maybe the trash can

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Speaker 1: could go somewhere else, or maybe you could work from

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Speaker 1: home an extra day per week and make the commute

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Speaker 1: too fewer times. Again, sometimes the right answer is to

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Speaker 1: quit a job. Sometimes places are unreasonable, even about little things.

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Speaker 1: If they won't move the trash can away from everyone's desks,

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Speaker 1: maybe you do want to move, but it's worth exploring

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Speaker 1: other options too, and by identifying which moments and tasks

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Speaker 1: make you miserable, you might be able to start solving

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Speaker 1: some of these issues, which will definitely improve daily life

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Speaker 1: in the meantime. This is Laura. Thank for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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