Job Crafting
Proactively reshaping your job to better fit your strengths, values, and interests, changing tasks, relationships, or perceptions without changing your formal role.
Job crafting (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001) is the art of redesigning your existing job to fit you better. Instead of finding a new job, you reshape the one you have.
Three types: Task crafting (changing what you do, taking on projects that match your strengths, delegating tasks that don't), Relational crafting (changing who you interact with, building relationships with inspiring colleagues, reducing contact with draining ones), and Cognitive crafting (changing how you think about your work, reframing tasks as meaningful contributions).
Job crafting is particularly valuable for neurodivergent people who can't easily change jobs. An ADHD person might craft their role toward high-stimulation projects; an autistic person might negotiate more independent, detail-oriented tasks.