--- title: Do This If You Hate Your Job description: Author Kerry Hannon outlines a few simple steps to find joy in your job again, or how to plan an exit if the joy is long-since-lost. authors: - name: Susie Poppick url: https://money.com/author/susie-poppick/ at_money_since: 2013 articles: 117 covers: - Career Advice - Banking - Business - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/susiepoppick former_staff: true - name: Turner Cowles url: https://money.com/author/turner-cowles/ at_money_since: 2014 articles: 24 covers: - Career Advice - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Investing - Lifestyle - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Technology social: - https://x.com/tgcowles former_staff: true published: '2015-07-10T16:33:19.000Z' modified: '2015-07-10T16:33:19.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - career change - Careers - hate your job - Jobs - layoff - Quit - Resign - video - Workplace word_count: 144 canonical: https://money.com/do-this-if-you-hate-your-job/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Screen Shot 2015-07-07 at 10.04.22 PM](https://img.money.com/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-07-07-at-10-04-22-pm.png) The immediate thought may be, simply, to quit. For most of us, that's not feasible option in the heat of the moment. So what do you do? Kerry Hannon, author of [Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118898060?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=1118898060&linkCode=xm2&tag=kerrhann-20), says you could start by trying to clean the clutter out of your office. "When you start to clear out your office, you're making decisions about your life," says Hannon. "This is important to me; this is not important to me." She also says you could try asking for new responsibilities; "I find the one reason people don't love their jobs is because they're bored." When it all does become too much, and you know you *have* to leave, it's time to start making a plan. 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