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Unhappy at your job? In 'The Search,' author Bruce Feiler maps out how to find purposeful work

The best-selling author explores how to find meaningful work — a topic that has come up for a lot of us during the pandemic.
The cover of "The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World." (Courtesy)

Host Robin Young speaks with best-selling author Bruce Feiler about his new book, “The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World.”

With many Americans unhappy at their jobs and seeking new opportunities, the book lays out a path for how to proceed.

Book excerpt: ‘The Search’

By Bruce Feiler

This book is designed to help you write your own story about work. It grows out of an unprecedented shift in how we think about what we do. More people are taking control of their work lives.

For the first time in history, the number of Americans quitting their jobs reached a million people a week in recent years. Buoyed by

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