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On Meaningless Careers
One of the saddest predicaments of the current millennial moment is feeling desperate for something that isn’t work, but having no clue how do figure out what else there is.
work worth doing. I didn’t want to escape work; I just craved work I cared about.
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
As we get older, we become more focused on searching for meaning—and we’re most likely to find it in actions that benefit others. My favorite test of meaningful work is to ask: if this job didn’t exist, how much worse off would people be? It’s near midlife that this question often begins to loom large. At around this time, in both work and life, we
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We sense that there are important and fulfilling ways we could be spending our time, even if we can’t say exactly what they are—yet we systematically spend our days doing other things instead. This yearning for more meaning can take many forms: It’s there, for instance, in the desire to devote yourself to some larger cause, in the intuition that th
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