Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Love Your Career or Change It — Life’s Too Short to Stay Stuck

12 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang says half your waking hours go to work, so don't waste them in a job you don't love. Try a different role in your field first, but if that doesn't work, change careers entirely.

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If you feel that you, you're not— you've not yet fallen into love with your career or with what you do, maybe it's, it's time to, A, reframe that and see if there are any other parts of that same profession that you can get into, that same career that you can get into. And if not, it's absolutely okay to change. Because what I feel, Ronnie, is that we spend a lot of time at work. Like, if I were to remove our sleeping hours, which hopefully is 7 hours every day for everyone, we're left with like 110-odd hours, and after that, like, 50% goes into work. So we gotta— we better love what we do, because otherwise it'll be a— it'll be a really long career, really long life, uh, to live through.