{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"We Think We Know","title":"Work Expert: Don't Waste 90,000 Hours In A Job You Don't Like","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4343,"description":"You'll spend around 90,000 hours of your life working, so why do four in five people say they don't actually like their jobs? Checked out, numb, or quietly done. This episode is about finding real meaning in your work before your life in the wrong job! Hans Rosinek is a work researcher and bestselling author. He's spent years untangling what actually makes work feel worth it and right for you!\nIn this episode, he explains:\n■ The Meaning Pressure: Work has become “the last religion,” and expecting it to deliver your deepest purpose makes you easier to manipulate and harder to leave. Why a side project can make you more resilient.\n■ The Four Kinds of Work: Paid work, care work, self work and political work all matter, and why only valuing wage labour ends up undermining wage labour itself.\n■ The Laptop Worker Problem: Why people who never see the results of their work feel alienated, why they take up pottery on weekends, and how constant interruptions fragment our focus.\n■ The Negotiation Trick: A simple reframe that turns your opponent’s reflexive “no” into your “yes” in salary talks, plus what to ask in interviews and how to spot red flags like “we’re a family.”\n■ Gen Z and AI: Why the “lazy Gen Z” story is mostly a myth, why AI used only for speed leads to an efficiency trap and “workslop,” and why mediocrity has less and less room.\n00:00 Intro\n 00:57 From Radio Presenter to Work Researcher\n 04:33 Can You Really “Do What You Love”?\n 06:03 The Dignity of “Dirty Jobs”\n 07:49 Which Jobs Are the Happiest?\n 10:58 Why Happiness Is the Wrong Goal\n 12:10 Laptop Workers and the Risk of Alienation\n 15:16 Why So Many People Are Disengaged\n 17:29 Home Office and the Junior Talent Pipeline\n 23:12 What Is “Meaning Pressure”?\n 26:02 The Four Kinds of Work\n 35:18 What Actually Motivates People?\n 38:18 Why Quiet Quitting Happens\n 42:19 What Makes a Good (and Bad) Manager?\n 49:19 Interview Red Flags for Young Workers\n 52:00 The Salary Negotiation Trick\n 57:55 Advice for Your...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fqgwq7RLVs9N5Y-RdApZsEWFGm9kndYxvGWCLGKGuqA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MmRl/ZjQ3MzAxZDcyMDc0/MWY3ZjFkN2I0ZWEy/NDY1My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}