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" In this economy, &amp;quot;take this job and shove it&amp;quot; has quickly become &amp;quot;take this job and &amp;#039;love&amp;#039; it.&amp;quot; With good reason. Unemployment is nudging 10 percent and, though experts say they see some bright spots, most people are still hurting from one or more of the economic ills of the last year and more. Maybe you lost money in the stock market, or your business is way down, or you&amp;#039;ve had furloughs or pay cuts (we&amp;#039;ve had the latter). It&amp;#039;s tough out there, people are scared, and this attitude came through loud and clear in a survey we just did in conjunction with AOL that we aptly called &amp;quot;All Work and No Play.&amp;quot;   Let me give you just a brief litany of the bad news: Two-thirds of you describe your job as &amp;quot;just a paycheck,&amp;quot; and one in ten can find hardly anything to love about your work. Only 17 percent call it their dream job. Office morale is described as essentially in the tank: 23 percent say it&amp;#039;s terrible, 47 percent call it so-so and only 30 percent think it&amp;#039;s good. Almost half worry at least some of the time that they&amp;#039;ll lose their job, while 15 percent fret constantly. And the answer that I find saddest, and most disturbing: Asked whether they&amp;#039;d want their kids to follow in their career footsteps, a resounding 79 percent said no, that they&amp;#039;d want something better for them.   Oh, and I didn&amp;#039;t mention that 69 percent of you don&amp;#039;t believe you&amp;#039;re getting paid what you&amp;#039;re worth.   There is not one single bright spot in the entire survey.   Yet, I ask myself and you, are things really that bleak? Could it be, perhaps, that many of us need a little attitude adjustment? To take a little bit more responsibility for our workplace happiness and turn that proverbial lemon of a job into lemonade? I was intrigued to see that, for all the angst our 4,000 survey respondents expressed, only 61 percent said they kept their resumes updated, just in case. That is such a basic thing, so easy to do in the computer age. But it appears that most people find it easier to gripe than to take action. If people won&amp;#039;t even go to the small trouble of having an updated resume, I wonder, are they doing any of the other things they might do to make their work hours happier and more satisfying. Like taking pride in doing a task well, or not taking part in the day&amp;#039;s pity party. You could even\u2014it&amp;#039;s just a thought\u2014look for another job. Hiring may be way down, but it hasn&amp;#039;t become extinct.   I&amp;#039;m no Pollyanna, and I very much realize that work is a hell of a lot more fun in good times than bad, and that a certain number of people are indeed on the edge in their jobs. But that number shouldn&amp;#039;t be all of us; after all, nine out of ten of us are working. Our collective job funk seems exceptionally counterproductive to me, and if we all wait for the economic tide to turn to become happy again, I think that will be an extraordinary and unnecessary waste. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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