How to Stay Productive When You Hate Your Job

Strategies for making it through the day when you’re bored, miserable, and still have work to do

Rebecca Fishbein
Forge
Published in
6 min readMar 14, 2019

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It’s easy to get out of bed and head to the office when you’re excited about your job, but when it feels like a slog, staying motivated is a herculean task. Calling in sick starts to seem more and more appealing. So does…

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Rebecca Fishbein
Forge
Writer for

Rebecca Fishbein is a writer in Brooklyn & the author of GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE YOU HATE, out 10/15. Find her on Twitter at @bfishbfish.