I Felt Important
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I Felt Important
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
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
When seeking employment, we are often forced into a rat race competition in which we have to either: offer up a palatable version of our genuine passions and desire, morphing them into a grotesquely corporate version of what they were - something pure and born of love and curiosity, or potentially feel that we are embarrassing or even humiliating
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