Embracing your ever changing job description
What is my job, what isn’t, what is set in stone, what is open for reconsideration
Embracing your ever changing job description
Aspirational Labor & The Mythologies of Creative Work
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This goes so hard when it’s recognising how romanticised being a solo business owner is, to outsiders and to wannabe entrepreneurs themselves
I write to validate that the things I do, my practice, my ideas, the lessons I’ve learned, and my writing have value. It’s a gratitude practice.
How simple can my job description be? But also, talking about defining my job description in the first place, I’m thinking why define it in the first place? How do you get clear on the labels that feel good to you vs the labels that other people might use to define your job.
How do I find a job that I like or maybe even love? • How do I build a career that will make me a good living? • How do I balance my career with my family? • How can I make a difference in the world? • How can I be thin, sexy, and fabulously rich?
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
Two decades and a half in education and I’ve learned none of this
I’m not a complete person and I don’t want to write from that place. I’m still incomplete, why force myself to speak from the pedestal of someone who has all the answers and has learned to steer clear of ambiguity?
Group Hug Approach is having one multifaceted job or business that allows you to wear many hats and shift between several domains at work.
Emilie Wapnick • How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
And my job does it now
becoming a [computing-internet-creative] [researcher-artist-technologist-???]
(clearly still searching for a term that feels right, or maybe I don’t need just one term and should embrace these multiplicities?)
(clearly still searching for a term that feels right, or maybe I don’t need just one term and should embrace these multiplicities?)
Spencer Chang • towards flight: a new chapter
The urge to label, to define, to find a box that perfectly fits us. Where does tha come from? What is the goal? What is the alternative?
The one about inaction being more powerful than action is so true
Instead of productivity, we focus on intentionality. It's not about how much you do, but about knowing why you're doing what you're doing, seeing dreams come to life, and having fun while you're doing it. Here are Intend's four principles for getting into flow and staying in touch with what matters to you:
choosing & doing, over organizing
aliveness,