A Job to Love (The School of Life Library)

question of all those we envy: ‘What could I learn about here?’

one’s intuitive excitement around journalism. What are the pleasures one is really seeking here – and might they exist somewhere else, and somewhere more favourable, in the world of work?

These industries don’t sit under the heading of journalism, but they all have needs and opportunities that offer exactly the same pleasures that were initially and rather superficially associated with journalism.

Paradoxically, it’s not our direct past thoughts about work that are typically most useful in guiding us to new, more fulfilling, work. Our search is for work we can love, not work we have done – and so we need to get to know a lot about what we love and why before we move too quickly to the formulation of a career plan. We might begin by zeroing i