The Feast of Severance
Anne Helen Petersen in her book Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, “we’re prevented from thinking of what we do as what it is: a job, not the entirety of our lives.”
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
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
People often, for example, oppose the actions and belief systems of billionaires, but take jobs at companies that increase the power and influence of those same billionaires. It’s not because these job-seekers are bad people, but because we are all operating in a system that makes aligning our values and our everyday lives seem impossible.
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Why it’s so hard to align our work with our values, and how we justify not trying.
