So he quit, leaving behind a partner position and a big-firm salary to take a job at a small firm run by his next-door neighbour, and to spend more time with his wife and dog.
“I’m still a lawyer,” he said. “But I haven’t been this excited to go to work in a long time.”
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If “languishing” is 2021’s dominant emotion, YOLOing may be the year’s defining workforce trend. A recent Microsoft survey found that more than 40 per cent of workers globally were considering leaving their jobs this year. Blind, an anonymous social network that is popular with tech workers, recently found that 49 per cent of its users planned to get a new job this year.
“We’ve all had a year to evaluate if the life we’re living is the one…

