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If you’re thinking of bailing on the rat race, attend a corporate-survival discussion group with the CNetwork on Tuesdays at 1pm. 100 Park Ave at 41st St (718-263-3501, cnetwork.org). $12.

Write poetry on your lunch break. For inspiration, pick up Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems. Keep in mind that T.S. Eliot was a banker, William Carlos Williams was a doctor, and Wallace Stevens was an insurance salesman.

Make like Angelina and help the children: Volunteer at Hale House, a center catering to Harlem children and families. www.halehouse.org

Puppy-sit for Puppies Behind Bars, a group that raises little mutts that become service dogs when they grow up. You’ll have to leave your desk to walk your hairy pal. puppiesbehindbars.com/volunteers.htm, aspca.com

Nostalgic for the carefree days of your childhood when rent and grocery money weren’t a part of your vocabulary? Take five minutes and $1 into Central Park and you can pretend you’re wee again on the carousel. Midpark at 64th St (212-879-0244, centralparkcarousel.com)

Learn some tai chi moves, which you can do anywhere, at the Times Square Chu Tai Chi studio, and then slip away to the stairwell and get your soothe on. chutaichi.com

You want to improve your metabolism, but can’t be bothered to work out. You only have to stumble as far as Gristedes to pick up a box of Tetley’s green tea—it’s cheaper than those yogi brews, and the antioxidants are just as good at boosting your metabolism.

Skip ’wichcraft and spend your lunch break burning calories skating on the Pond at Bryant Park. thepondatbryantpark.com

The Museum of Sex’s “Action: Sex and the Moving Image” exhibition looks at porn from an academic perspective (at least that’s what you can tell yourself). 233 Fifth Ave at 27th St (212-689-6337, museumofsex.com)