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Finding Meaning in the Mean Time
When we talk about “toughing out a tough job,” (our current podcast discussion series), we are not talking about passively enduring an awful situation until something better comes along. We’re talking...
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Toughing Out a Tough Job #2: When It Couldn’t Get More Boring
Boredom is the kiss of death. Once boredom sets in, it’s like a slow, inevitable march toward madness. Nothing seems to matter. Energy levels plummet. The mind makes periodic escape attempts toward...
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Is Your Resume Up To Date?
Toughing out a tough job is no one’s preference. In our current podcast discussions, though, we’re acknowledging that there do exist situations and seasons when staying put is the wisest course of...
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Boring Job Is Creativity and Motivational Challenge
Surviving a boring job (when leaving isn’t an option) is a creativity and a motivational challenge. It’s a creativity challenge, because nothing in the job itself is stimulating, challenging or...
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Toughing Out a Tough Job #3: When The Workload is Overwhelming
Workload feel like you’re juggling knives? Lugging a file cabinet on your back? Navigating a maze of booby traps? For any given priority that you consider tackling, do all the others shout for...
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Survival May Depend On Distinctions
When the workload becomes overwhelming, survival may depend upon making distinctions. In this week’s podcast conversation, Claudia and I discuss survival techniques for those with too much work coming...
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Listen In -> Toughing Out a Tough Job #4: When the Conflict is Constant
While boredom sucks the life out of you and workload may overwhelm you, conflict diminishes and demeans you. In this week’s podcast conversation, Claudia and I look at toughing out a job when conflict...
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Understanding Instead of Winning When in Conflict
Conflict can be the most difficult situation to tough out. Let’s remind ourselves we’re discussing conflict in the context of having chosen to stay in our current job. We’re choosing to tough it out...
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Listen In -> Toughing Out a Tough Job #5: When You Hate Your Job
What could be worse? Hating your job and needing to keep it. It’s a worst case scenario, sure. But in these tough economic times, we may consider it wiser to tough out a nasty, soul-sucking,...
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Where Do You Dig The Well In A Desert?
When you need to stay in a job you hate, rolling out of bed in the morning can feel impossible. If your job gives you no reason to get up, then you need to give yourself one. The question becomes, “How...
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