Noam Segal: belief

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…Another quick data point that we want to make sure to communicate here, you touched on this, but I don't know if you actually made this as clear to people as it should be. So this is looking at, would you recommend people get into my role? We also asked just how are you feeling about your role? Are you happy being in this role? And the result there was, I'm actually doing okay, I'm happy. I'm happy a designer, researcher. So as you said, it's this kind of, the water's fine, but don't get in. Talk a little bit about that just to make sure that point is clear. When we asked people things like, are they enjoying their job? As we talked about earlier, most people said that overall, yes, they're having fun in their role. I think what's going on here is that again, people are lacking optimism compared to what they were. Optimism has gone down. So there's a big difference between how people are feeling now about their role, given what they've achieved in their careers, and where they are on the ladder compared to what they're extrapolating might happen in a year, in three years, in five years. And what people are extrapolating might happen is clearly more negative than their current experiences. So yeah, I mean all in all, we're doing okay as an industry. We're enjoying, we're trying new things, we're experiencing a complete paradigm shift in how we work. And that's fun for a while, but it seems like people feel like this is not going in the best of directions. And of course I hope we're all wrong. I hope we're all wrong. Me too. As a natural optimist, I'm like, "It's going to be all right." So we'll see.…

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