How To Stop Hating On Your Job

No-one is ever completely happy with their professional life. But there are ways you can ease the pain.

- Caitlin Carlson

POP QUIZ: IS YOUR JOB...

a) boring;

b) going nowhere;

c) filled with awful and annoying people, or

d) a combination of the above? Most people have at least one of these gripes—and almost no-one can just up and quit. What you can do: change the way you think about your nine-to-five, says Daniel M. Cable, author of Alive At Work. Switching up your mind-set will help make your time on the clock more fun and fulfilling. Here’s how to retool your workplace ’tude.

1 STOP TALKING TRASH

Those after-work margarita nights where everyone bashes the boss? Yeah, not helping, says Amy Cooper Hakim, PhD, co-author of