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Unpacking the “Day Job”
We’re all familiar with the question every college graduate hears on repeat as soon as they’re finished with school: “What do you plan to do next?” That question invariably means, “What are your job prospects?” Meanwhile, the admonition to “get a job!” is synonymous with “grow up!”
What a soulless way to conceive of existence. What a dull invitation... See more
What a soulless way to conceive of existence. What a dull invitation... See more
Satya Doyle Byock • Yes, Mental Health in Your 20s is About More Than Having a Job
Work, in other words, helps to tell us how to be. And changes in the shape of the workplace, in the shape of capitalism itself, have changed our expectations for what our lives will be like, for where and how we will find fulfillment.
Sarah Jaffe • Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Most people have an acute sense of the challenges that lay ahead. They can predict the criticism they’ll face and the insecurity they’ll feel. This is why many, including me, refuse the “call to adventure” as long as possible. Before quitting my job, I spent several years critiquing the corporate world from within, convinced I could help “fix” it.
... See morePaul Millerd • Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
the reason so many of them are so unhappy – despite being generally very well paid – is the convention of the ‘billable hour’, which obliges them to treat their time, and thus really themselves, as a commodity to be sold off in sixty-minute chunks to clients. An hour not sold is automatically an hour wasted. So when an outwardly successful, hard-dr
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