Is it the job, or what I think about the job?
Epictetus
Epictetus would say: the job is an event, and events have never once made anybody miserable.
His starting move is the . Your judgments, intentions and responses are up to you. Your workload, your manager, the reorganisation, whether the work is recognised — none of it is. Distress, on this account, is what happens when you treat the second category as though it belonged to the first, and it is produced by that error rather than by the events themselves.
He was more precise about the mechanism than the modern revival usually is. An arrives — this is unbearable, this is unfair — and before distress there is an assent you give to it, fast enough to be invisible. That gap is the whole of Stoic freedom. Not choosing your circumstances; choosing what you agree to about them.
Epictetus had earned the right to say this in a way that is hard to dismiss. He was born enslaved.
The objection is serious and should be made: an account this powerful is also perfectly designed to make people compliant, and it locates the fix inside the person whatever the arrangement is doing. Whether that is wisdom or an excellent way to keep the arrangement intact is the argument that runs through everything here.