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.