Staying at a job while your interest in work wanes is difficult, especially if that disinterested feeling has popped up suddenly.

The most obvious solution, of course, is to leave. But, losing interest in a job is a normal reaction to the pandemic shake-up. It doesn’t necessarily mean you need to quit or change careers. There may be ways to fire up a positive relationship with your job – even if it means simply making it more palatable for now, while you look for an alternative.

There’s a very clear and current phenomenon of people experiencing a waning interest in their work.

Particularly at the beginning of the pandemic, people started spending a lot more time at home and that gave them a lot more downtime. When you’re in the off...