There are a lot of people who are stuck at places they hate right now.  That’s probably why they’re reading posts on the Internet rather than working.  I know the feeling, and thanks to the economy downturn, there are a lot of other people who know the feeling of being stuck in a dead-end job that you hate because you have no other options.  However, there is hope.  Three researchers at the Yale School of Management, Amy Wrzesniewski, Jane Dutton, and Justin Berg, have developed something called job-crafting.  Job-crafting is a list of five tips that allows you to reformat a bad job into a better one.

Unfortunately, job-crafting won’t help you get rid of a bad boss or an obnoxious coworker, but it can help you take a fresh look at just what you do every day and the ways in which you do it.  They’re pretty standard tips:  diagrams loves and hates about the job, creative thinking, listing actual responsibilities, and that sort of thing.  Still, sometimes all it takes to change a job is to alter how you look at it.

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