Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here . (It’s anonymous!)

Dear Good Job,

I own a business, and frankly I hate it. It consumes all of my time and energy and I’m trying to figure out a plan to get out. That said, the only thing I hate more than owning and operating my business is TALKING about the business I own and operate. And yet, in any social gathering, people inevitably ask me about how it’s going. And no matter how many times I deflect or redirect, inevitably, at the next social gathering, people ask me about it.

So here’s my question: How do I tell people to STOP EFFING ASKING ME ABOUT WORK and make it stick without coming off as an asshole? I’ve thought about responding to work qu

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