Find the website www.mindtools.com, and search for ‘job crafting’. There you will find practical advice on how to reshape or ‘craft’ your job, to make it more interesting, meaningful and personally satisfying. This means being creative in making some subtle and not so subtle changes, perhaps simply restructuring how time is spent during the day, or ‘task trading’ with colleagues. These changes may not have to be approved by management.

Thinking of the jobs that you have held, how practical is the advice on offer here? Could you have put this into practice, and would this have enabled you to craft a more satisfying role, or not?

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