relationship with work
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
relationship with work
- This is one of my answers to the question of, why give a fuck about work? Why love your work? It won’t, of course, love you back. It can’t. Work isn’t a thing that can love. It isn’t alive, it isn’t and won’t ever be living. And my answer is: don’t. Don’t give a fuck about your work. Give all your fucks to the living. Give a fuck about the people y... See more
sari added 6mo ago
via Mandy Brown
- Learning about the lives of hunter-gatherers confirms a suspicion that our modern lives are fundamentally at odds with human nature, that we have lost some kind of primordial freedom. […]
‘A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is mo... See moreandrea added 7mo ago
- “The majority of my buddies are not in the business. I also love not working. And I think for me a lot of research as an actor is just fucking living , and, you know, having a normal life doing regular things and just being able to observe, and be , in that sort of lovely flow of humanity.
from Cillian Murphy Is the Man of the Moment by Daniel Riley
meghna added 8mo ago
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.
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
meghna added 8mo ago
choice as a precursor for meaning?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?
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
meghna added 8mo ago
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.
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
meghna added 8mo ago
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
... See morefrom This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
meghna added 8mo ago
- It's been hard, sure, but in a good way rather than a dumb way. What I wrote a year ago has only become more true:
When I’m writing this blog, I feel like that scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where Harrison Ford sticks the Staff of Ra into an underground map at the right time of day and a beam of light shines through the ruby
... See morefrom The Slop School of Internet Success and other lies about cyberspace by Adam Mastroianni
sari added 9mo ago
the right work feels hard in a good way, not in a dumb way.
- “We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false i... See more
from Buckminster Fuller
Alara added 1y ago
what would you be thinking about before someone came along and told you you had to earn a living?