An exercise for finding good work

How does your work support your financial wellness?

Here’s a quick exercise from You Don’t Need a Budget to help you think about the work you’re doing.

As part of healing in your relationship with money, I encourage everyone to find good work — work that supports your overall financial wellness. That means it supports your:

• Goals: Salary, savings, promotions, titles, etc.

• Values: Making an impact, caring for people, etc.

• Best interests: Health insurance, work/life balance, inclusivity, etc.

Grab a notebook (if you’re a journaler) or a friend (if you’re a talker), and work through these questions to determine whether the work you do now supports your overall wellness.

Does your work…

• Respect and utilize your strengths?

• Offer opportunities for learning and career development?

• Make room for personal goals and interests?

• Support the kind of business you want in the world?

• Serve people you care about?

• Make the positive impact you want to make?

• Avoid or prevent outcomes you’d consider bad?

• Pay fairly?

• Provide benefits like health insurance, paid leave, and retirement contributions?

• Enforce health and safety measures?

• Offer flexible and remote work, so you can determine how to make your best contribution?

If you answered no to any of these questions: Imagine work that would check all of these boxes. What would have to change at your current workplace? Where might you look for work elsewhere to meet your needs?

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