Pete Wright
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There is a clinical term for it.
It's job loss related complicated grief, JLRCG.
Okay.
It presents with many of the same markers as bereavement, right?
Difficulty accepting a new reality, identity disruption, loss of purpose, persistent sense of yearning for the role you left behind.
It's the same steps you go.
I mean, it's like, what's the thing you always like to say?
Dabda?
Yeah.
University of Michigan psychology professor Richard Price put it quite plainly, I think.
Some people have jobs, other people have careers, and some people have callings.
And when they lose the latter, they lose a part of their life.
Wow.
They don't just lose a paycheck.
Man.
This whole thing makes me very sad.
It's supposed to be work, life, balance.
And this sounds like it's the other way around.
Let's talk about the taxonomy of quitting because I have more research, but it's made me too sad.
So I want to just talk about what quitting looks like today.