Loving Your Job and Why it (Actually) Matters
summary
Cites studies that 28–56% of workers want to leave and 65% of North Americans report dissatisfaction and that dissatisfied employees miss four more days a year, while half of women who enter STEM leave over 30 years and 51% of women of color planned to leave within 12 months. Relates a Berlin internship that failed because of management and social support not the code and offers concrete fixes — reflection, lists, quizzes, Myers Briggs, the book Do What You Are, and asking friends.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:51Disclaimer
- 2:1728-56% of workers worldwide wanted to leave their jobs
- 3:24reasons for disengagement. lack of supportive relationships with superiors and co-workers
- 3:50effect of disengagement.
- 5:3260% of qualified STEM women work in their fields at beginning of career
- 5:4750% leave over the next 30 years of their careers
- 6:1551% of women of color planned to leave within the next 12 months
- 7:45the beginnings
- 10:10getting started & going strong
- 10:38the end?
- 13:10coming back
- 15:02Strategies
- 15:15Reflect
- 15:44look at your past.
- 17:07what did you like about your previous jobs? what didn't you?
- 18:01let the quizzes do it.
- 19:38Ask for help
- 19:59enlist your friends.
- 20:30put out the bat signal.
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