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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 might not need to quit

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Speaker 1: while no job is forever. Sometimes what feels undoable could

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Speaker 1: feel very different with some space or some different parameters.

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Speaker 1: So if you read the news, you have no doubt

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Speaker 1: seen a lot about the great resignation. With lots of

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Speaker 1: job openings, people are feeling more comfortable leaving their current jobs,

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Speaker 1: sometimes for other jobs and sometimes for different lifestyles, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes that's the right move. Often you can earn more

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Speaker 1: by moving between organizations. I wish this weren't true and

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Speaker 1: that company's rewarded people for staying, but the labor market

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Speaker 1: isn't efficient, so that does not happen. There are also

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Speaker 1: many other rewarding things people can do with their time

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Speaker 1: then full time work. That said, sometimes what is happening

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Speaker 1: is that stress and anxiety can build up over time.

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Speaker 1: We need to rest and recharged, but work feels so

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Speaker 1: busy that resting and recharging doesn't seem possible. In this

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Speaker 1: tense situation, something lights a fuse and quitting feels like

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Speaker 1: the only option, But perhaps it isn't If you are

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Speaker 1: thinking of quitting, but you think your job might be redeemable,

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Speaker 1: you could try taking some serious time off first. I

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Speaker 1: am talking at least two weeks and hopefully a bit more.

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Speaker 1: If you have vacation days you haven't used yet, those

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Speaker 1: would be good to deploy. If your company has any

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Speaker 1: sort of paid or unpaid leave, that might be worth

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Speaker 1: investigating too. You don't have to go anywhere exotic if

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Speaker 1: Fiji isn't in the budget right now, but you do

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Speaker 1: have to not work. See what it feels like to

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Speaker 1: not feel stressed about work, See what it feels like

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Speaker 1: to have time be more open. It is quite possible

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Speaker 1: you will return after a few weeks feeling refreshed. Now

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Speaker 1: you might be thinking this would never fly, But if

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Speaker 1: your alternative is to quit, what do you have to lose?

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Speaker 1: I recently talked with someone who had negotiated a part

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Speaker 1: time position at an organization that basically did not do

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Speaker 1: part time positions. How did it happen? Well, she was

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Speaker 1: very clear that she was going to walk out the door.

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Speaker 1: The part time position was a way to keep that

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Speaker 1: from happening. Any rational employer would rather see a valued

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Speaker 1: employee take a three week vacation and come back then

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Speaker 1: walk out the door. For good hiring and training, someone

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Speaker 1: will take way more than three weeks. So rather than

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Speaker 1: walk out the door to get the feeling of that

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Speaker 1: three week vacation, why not try the break first. Take

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Speaker 1: the time truly off, don't check email, don't look at

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Speaker 1: anything work related. See what comes from that. Maybe with

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Speaker 1: some perspective you will feel the same way you want

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Speaker 1: to be doing something else with your time. But maybe

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Speaker 1: you'll feel ready to try again and to tackle some

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Speaker 1: of the problems that seemed intractable before. You could move

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Speaker 1: to a different team, you could negotiate for different hours,

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Speaker 1: you can switch your port folio of projects. Sometimes it

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Speaker 1: is hard to see these things in the moment, but

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Speaker 1: with some space you can. So try the space and

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Speaker 1: find out for sure if quitting is what you want

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Speaker 1: to do. In the meantime, this is Laura, Thanks for listening,

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

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