There are also factors connected to job happiness that we have little control over, such as your boss. But we don’t usually decide who our boss is, and they can suddenly change (for good or bad). And — in my own, less scientific, more DIY way — here are exercises I’ve been practicing to get into better work happiness shape. And the third lists things you’d like to be able to do in your job that you currently don’t — even if they have nothing to do with what you’re paid to do. Beyond whatever the job itself accomplishes, there is also meaning and purpose with what you do with your wages.

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Persons: CNN —, Henry David Thoreau, ”, Amy Wrzesniewski, Jane E . Dutton, It’s, I’ve, you’re, Michael, Jamie, Collin, Fiona, Saeed, ” Wrzesniewski, “, ’ ”, “ That’s, Onboarding, You’re Organizations: CNN, Conference Board, Yale University, University of Michigan, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School