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If You Hate Your Job, This Is What You Need to Do

By Alison Green — 2018

If you’re miserable at work, you’re not alone.

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So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

Cal Newport’s clearly written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person’s talent and skill—and not necessarily their passion—that determines their career path. Newport, who graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) and earned a PhD.

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Cal Newport
2025
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The Art of Not Falling Apart

When life threw journalist Christina Patterson an involuntary-redundancy shaped curveball she decided to tear up the rulebook. Dreaming of revenge and irritated by self-help books, she set out to interview others who had found themselves picking up their own pieces.

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Christina Patterson
2019
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I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work (Fully Revised and Updated)

The quintessential guide to kick-starting your career, fully revised and updated for the ever-changing modern job market Despite a recovering economy, many Americans are still losing their jobs, while many who do have jobs are overworked, maxed out, and miserable.

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Julie Jansen
2025
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Clocking Out: A Stress-Free Guide to Career Transitions

Clocking Out gives readers a new way to think about their careers and delivers practical advice to first assess and consolidate individual power, then make thoughtful, meaningful changes and choices for a successful transition.

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Raymond Lee
2025
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Career Pivot: Avoid Common Mistakes

In this segment about how to survive a career pivot, Founder and CEO of the Business Talent Group Jody Greenstone Miller advises career switchers to be realistic, patient, and nimble.

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2015
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Feeling Stuck? DON’T “Follow Your Passion” (and What to Do Instead)

Are you feeling stuck in your career? PLEASE don’t follow your passion! This video discusses why you shouldn’t follow your passion and why to follow your passion is bad advice.

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2020
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What to Do When You Feel Stuck in Your Career

We all have times when we feel stuck in our careers, when we’re not advancing as fast as we’d like, or it feels like we’re not advancing at all. May Busch - Executive Coach, Speaker and Former COO of Morgan Stanley Europe - gives three strategies you can use to help you stop feeling stuck.

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2014
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Pivot: The Only Move that Matters Is Your Next One

What’s next? is a question we all have to ask and answer more frequently in an economy where the average job tenure is only four years, roles change constantly even within that time, and smart, motivated people find themselves hitting professional plateaus.

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Jenny Blake
2025
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Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown.

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Herminia Ibarra
2025
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking.

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Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
2016
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