Rachel Feintzeig

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1,709 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2019 last heard Nov 2024

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why People Can’t Figure Out When It’s Time to Retire · 13 Nov 2023 podcast

And it's a way to gently nudge yourself voice-verified

toward the reality of what you might be giving up by continuing to devote so much of yourself to work. voice-verified

WSJ Your Money Briefing · How to Be Left Alone at Work, Without Being Left Behind · 23 Oct 2023 podcast

Things like office politics, gossip, just these things that are kind of simmering under the surface. matched

This sense that there's more useless meetings, more busy work, and this feeling that I keep hearing from people of like, I just want to do my job. matched

I wish I had more time to just do my actual job. matched

It's true that we had interruptions. matched

Some of us were home with our kids trying to do school and all of our lives from the dining room table. matched

We do know that working from home and time during the pandemic really cut down on things like office politics, gossip, just these things that are kind of simmering under the surface, like our shadow work lives that often take us away from our actual jobs. matched

And now that we've seen both companies doubling down on calls to have people come back to the office, we recently had a story that many companies aren't just checking if you've badged in for the day, but how many hours that you're staying. matched

That combined with an increase in pressure in many corners of the economy and the workplace, bosses and workers are feeling anxious and all of that is bubbling up. matched

into these kinds of interruptions, this sense that there's more useless meetings, more busy work, and this feeling that I keep hearing from people of like, I wish I had more time to just do my actual job. matched

A lot of it is about being proactive, right? matched

So in the moment, you can do things like wearing headphones. matched

But the thing I have mostly focused on in this piece is about how to make it so that you preemptively get that quiet. matched

So one idea is to every week have a one-page document that you can send out to your bosses and to your colleagues as well, just outlining distractions. matched

detailed status on your project what work did you do last week what permissions or roadblocks do you perceive needing from other people this coming week what percentage done are you with this project and you can link to past installments at the bottom so that when someone comes up to you and has a random question about your project you can just gently kindly you don't have to be a jerk about it but you can just refer them to the link and be like i outlined it last week click here matched

A lot of that, again, is about managing up and being proactive. matched

When it comes to the boss, you want to really make it clear that you're handling your own world. matched

You have things under control. matched

The more confidence they have in you, the more they're just going to leave you alone. matched

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