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The most glamorous jobs can get ugly at times…

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Transcripts, credentials, and job history still matter, but they aren’t the whole show anymore.

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Portray hardship and possible failure as selling points for your jobs, rather than as liabilities. Middle-of-the-pack candidates won’t want any part of this.

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If it were a true meritocracy, we could tell ourselves that if we work hard and do well, our jobs will be safe. But this is hardly the case.

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A 2011 study… concluded that having a job we hate is as bad for our health and sometimes worse than not having a job at all.

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This is why we are willing to change jobs in the first place; we feel no loyalty to a company whose leaders offer us no sense of belonging or reason to stay beyond money and benefits.

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That something as simple as a corporate incentive system or a corporate culture is actually contributing to those statistics is horrifying. Our jobs are literally killing us.

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…how can we ever feel safe at work? How can we feel committed to the jobs we have if the leaders of our companies aren’t committed to us.

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Indeed, one of the fastest routes to higher pay early in a career is to switch jobs fairly often.

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Many ‘when’ decisions involve endings. And one of the biggest is when to leave a job that just isn’t working out. That’s a big step, a risky move, and not always a choice for some people.

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