{"id":6124,"date":"2014-11-06T02:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2014-11-06T02:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:37","slug":"quit-your-job-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/06\/quit-your-job-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit Your Job &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friends sometimes approach me with career anxieties, under the false impression that writing about economics makes somebody a good career advisor. My counsel is typically something like optimistic incrementalism. Don\u2019t quit your job, mastery comes with time, job satisfaction comes with mastery&#8230; that sort of stuff.<br \/>\nWhen the same friends ask my roommate, an entrepreneur building a financial services app, they\u2019re whiplashed with radical optimism. Get the hell out of there! Quit if you have to! You\u2019ll be happier doing just about anything else!<br \/>\nI never said it outright, but I assumed that my cautious approach was more responsible, even if it seldom proved more inspirational. But according to a new study of youth unemployment by economists Martin Gervais, Nir Jaimovich, Henry Siu, and Yaniv Yedid-Levi, my incrementalist advice, while appropriate for the worst periods of the Great Recession, isn\u2019t so great, overall.<br \/>\nInstead, there is what you might call a &#8220;dream-job premium.\u201d Jumping between jobs in your 20s, which strikes many people as wayward and noncommittal, improves the chance that you&#8217;ll find more satisfying\u2014and higher paying\u2014work in your 30s and 40s.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2014\/11\/quit-your-job\/382402\/\">Quit Your Job &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends sometimes approach me with career anxieties, under the false impression that writing about economics makes somebody a good career advisor. My counsel is typically something like optimistic incrementalism. Don\u2019t quit your job, mastery comes with time, job satisfaction comes with mastery&#8230; that sort of stuff. When the same friends ask my roommate, an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/06\/quit-your-job-the-atlantic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quit Your Job &#8211; The Atlantic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,62,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-personal-angol","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}