OG Tuesday Issue #202

💼 Career: What does “job hopping” indicate to potential future employers?

🌟 Work/Life: Yes, busy women CAN have joy in their lives.

⏳ Stress: The best strategy for saying “no” more often is thinking about your time the way you think about your money.

📱 Tech/Life: Recent Harris poll reveals how people think about their devices, their social media accounts, and their health.

🌍 EDI: The imperative to navigate unconscious bias at work before it gets worse.

Demonstrating you have a growth mindset during interviews and networking events could be your simplest strategy for looking like the proverbial golden goose to potential employers.

“Given the fast-changing world of business, hiring managers ‘want to look for a growth mindset,’” Linkedin workforce expert Aneesh Raman recently told CNBC. “This is the new degree, the way that you’ve been looking for a Harvard degree.”

What does a growth mindset even look like?

• You express a desire and interest to develop your core talents over time
• You actively seek new knowledge and learning opportunities
• You challenge yourself and set lofty goals (and know how to pursue them independently)
• You ask for feedback and accept it with open-mindedness and curiosity

To convey all that juicy information about your character during a job interview, broadcast your excitement about learning and development opportunities you know come with the position. (If you don’t know of any opportunities, ask if they exist!)

“You’ve got to get excited about learning as an individual,” she told CNBC. “The biggest competitive differentiator a young grad can have is internalizing the idea that they’re going to be learning for the rest of their life and getting excited about it.”

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One TA Subscriber wants to fully show up for work and life without burning out:

The biggest challenge I’m currently facing is not burning out while working to my fullest potential.

Like so many of our subscribers’ biggest challenges, this one likely strikes a chord throughout the broader community as well.

We all genuinely want to do our best. We also want to feel our best. Regardless of our desires and ambitions, achieving these two bests often feels like we’re constantly fussing with an old-fashioned balance scale that refuses to, well…balance.

So!

Question: Are ‘avoiding burnout’ and ‘doing your best’ mutually exclusive concepts?

Answer: They can be, but they don’t have to be.

A bright side for everyone experiencing burnout: you’re not alone! That’s a bright side not only because you have good company, support, and genuine understanding about how you’re feeling, but also because the dramatic rise of reported burnout in the workplace means a lot of experts are studying the issue in-depth and finding life changing solutions.

Choose your own burnout expert and strategy from below:

The experts: Brené Brown + Emily and Amelia Nagoski

Their core philosophy for beating burnout

Burnout isn’t only about how much work we’re doing or how much stress we’re aware of feeling.

A major burnout contributor is emotional exhaustion, which can build up in the body, lead to significant physical symptoms, such as IBS and heart disease, and also wreak havoc on your central nervous system — all sometimes without you even noticing.

Strategy: Learn to recognize your stressors, label the emotions they spark in you, and then independently complete your own stress cycle to move on and feel refreshed.

Resources:

• Unlocking Us Podcast Episode – Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle
• Book – Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

The expert: Cal Newport

His core philosophy for beating burnout

To overcome burnout while also doing work and creating things that make us feel proud and accomplished, we must start by altering our relationship to productivity and our understanding of what it is.

He argues that society’s current understanding of productivity is rooted in manufacturing. The ‘term’ productivity started as a literal, visual, and quantifiable measure of production.

Knowledge workers experience burnout when trying to gauge their value in manufacturing terms.

Strategy: Try to reduce your workload to what’s truly important and meaningful, work at a pace that feels natural to your own mind and body, and spend your mental energy on quality instead of quantity.

Resources:

• Video interview – Cal Newport and Big Think
• Book – Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

The expert: Clinical fatigue specialist Vincent Deary

His core philosophy for beating burnout

Burnout stems from modern workers’ overdeveloped ability to work hard combined with their underdeveloped, and often non-existent, ability to rest and recover. The common mindset that we are safe or can rest only after we’ve finished that big thing is erroneous and a core contributor to chronic burnout.

Strategy: Experiment with different activities until you can understand and define what “rest” means and feels like in your mind and body.

You’ll likely know it when you experience it, but some common signals include:

• Feeling a deep sense of safety in your body
• Being able to breathe more deeply, slowly, and fully than you typically do
• Thinking markedly less about work or anything else for that matter

Resources:

• Audio interview – Vincent Deary: Why rest is vital to beat burnout
• Book – How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living by Vincent Deary

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“Speak up about culture or practices that limit yours and others’ ability to be efficient and effective. Doing so in a proactive way, with suggestions for change that will improve performance for the company’s benefit, are as important for your sense of worth as they are for the organization. Complaining to coworkers or staying quiet out of loyalty won’t change anything.” — Ann K. (Administrative Assistant)

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• The Phoenix Group is hiring for a Information Technology Support Analyst (Houston, TX/Hybrid).
• Premiere Care Soutions is hiring for a Director of Nursing/Clinical Services (Houston, TX).
• Confidential is hiring for a Deputy Chief Financial Officer (Washington, DC).
• Westamerica Bank is hiring for a Marketing Product Manager (Fairfield, CA).
• Marriott is hiring for a Marketing Manager (New Orleans, LA).