So, you left your job during the Great Resignation. What’s next?
<p>More Americans have left their jobs during the pandemic than at any point in the last two decades. <a href="https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/interactive-quits-level-by-year.aspx" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">4.3 million people quit in December 2021 alone</a>, and up to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-quitting-joining-great-resignation-reshuffle-job-with-purpose-2022-2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">65 percent of Gen Z plans to join what has become known as the Great Resignation</a>.</p>
<p>We’ve left for all sorts of reasons. There are labor market reasons — lots of available jobs combined with low unemployment means potentially larger salaries — but that is not the primary driver. Most of us have left, instead, for “softer” reasons. <a href="https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/01/special-burnout-stress" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">We’re burnt out</a>. The pestilent specter hanging over our lives for the last 700 days has forced us <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/the-great-resignation-5199074" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">to re-evaluate our priorities</a>, and we have reemerged with a growing unwillingness toward work <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-quitting-joining-great-resignation-reshuffle-job-with-purpose-2022-2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">that doesn’t align with our values</a>.</p>
<p>In a 1954 speech to the World Council of Churches, <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-second-assembly-the-world-council-churches-evanston-illinois" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said</a> that there were “two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” <a href="https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/interactive-quits-level-by-year.aspx" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Four million Americans a month</a> have been realizing we’re stuck in jobs that prioritize the urgent but unimportant.</p>
<p>The Great Resignation has been our response.</p>
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<p>Source: World Economic Forum</p>
<p>Things have started to change. Job numbers in the first quarter of 2022 have outperformed economic forecasts, with March’s numbers dropping the unemployment rate to the <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/01/economy/us-march-jobs-report/index.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">lowest it’s been since the pandemic started</a>.</p>
<p>In other words, after walking away from our jobs, we’ve started to walk back.</p>
<p>But what are we walking back toward?</p>
<p>I’ve been there. I’m a cancer surgeon who works on hospital ships in sub-Saharan Africa. I also never wanted to be a doctor. And in 2018, I quit my own US practice because it no longer aligned with my priorities.</p>
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