relationship with work

The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones.

This is the root of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs analysis. That a shocking pe

We cannot talk about work as calling without contending with the fact that there are those who have been denied choice, equity, and dignity in their work.

How boring to spend the whole of my vocational energy trying to figure out if I am choosing the right work. It is of much greater interest to me to talk about how I’m going to do the work with integrity. How am I going to protect dignity as I work? And what truths are calling out to me as I work?

Excellence may be a part of calling, but work itself is a meeting place for the divine as we experience a God who labors alongside us.

Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great str