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
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.