HBR: When Your Job Breaks Your Heart

This viral article offers readers tools to manage professional heartbreak: the loss of something work-related that feels as personally wounding as grief or heartbreak in your personal life. This can be because something happened that’s so deeply counter to your values system that you feel morally wounded. It can be the loss of something that you loved, like your business or a long tenure at a company, or a loss of a professional identity you’ve worked for many years to build. It can be a betrayal from a colleague, boss, or client you thought you knew.

Regardless of the circumstances, professional heartbreak brings up all the big emotions. Read more at HBR.org.

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