How to Keep Your Soul in a Corporate Job
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How to Keep Your Soul in a Corporate Job
People dedicate themselves to being “good workers,” and being successful means keeping clients, customers, and managers happy while fitting into a company’s cultural norms. Unfortunately, success for the company does not always align with what is best for the person, and over time, a disconnect can emerge. This is what happened to me.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
That experience sent me down the “way of loss,” opening me up to the questions I had ignored by orienting my life around my work. What was I living for? What did I really want? How did I want to look back on my life when it was my time to go?
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
An insightful narrative piece that eloquently describes an experience of corporate work that feels alien to the self—and the subsequent break, burnout, and escape to a better way of being.
Claire Simonis • Death of a Salesgirl
themselves out, seeking a form of stability and functional social living without losing connection to their sense of meaning, even if engaging in such work may feel abhorrent at the outset.