The role of a soul-sucking job.

I have a friend who started his first job out of college three months ago and I can tell it’s sucking his soul.

I saw him recently and he had that look: tired, de-energized, disengaged…generally unenthused about work.

Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily.

Soul-sucking jobs play an important role — they motivate us. In fact, I think everyone should have at least one for a short time.

My advice to him — and you — would be the same…stick it out long enough to feel the burning desire to do something else, then make the leap.

​Until you feel that desire, you’ll leap half-heartedly and be at risk to bail when the leaping gets tough.