The Trouble with Passion
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The Trouble with Passion
The Trouble with Passion also raises more existential questions about the prioritization of passion among career decision-makers.
What does it mean to center paid employment in one's self-reflexive project?
How does it perpetuate a culture of overwork and close off other meaning-making opportunities? And in what ways might the popularity of the passi
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In The Trouble with Passion , Erin demonstrates how the commodification of passion in the contemporary workplace perpetuates class inequality in college and beyond. While passion may seem, on the surface, to be highly individualistic, she details the many ways that it is actually rooted in structural positions and identities.
The Trouble with Passion
Molly added
“Not everybody has the same springboards and safety nets to parlay their passions into gainful employment,” Erin Cech, a sociologist who researches fulfillment at work, told me. “If people are told to follow their passions, but we don’t provide an equal playing field in which they can do that, then telling people to
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The potential for passion to be exploited—either the passion of workers who have it, or by expecting workers to perform it—was a deep-cutting finding that led to my own reckoning with my perspectives about work.
The Trouble with Passion
Molly added
The desire for the cool job that you’re passionate about is a particularly modern and bourgeois phenomenon—and, as we’ll see, a means of elevating a certain type of labor to the point of desirability that workers will tolerate all forms of exploitation for the “honor” of performing it. The rhetoric of “Do you what you love, and you’ll never work an
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