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Happy Monday 💔📉📆🗂️💼 (see my ratings of these books below)
My Ratings:
RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter-4⭐️
The New Me by Halle Butler-3⭐️
Temporary by Hilary Leichter-3.5⭐️
***DISCLAIMER: i’m aware more books can fit in this category, but these are the ones i wanted to... See more
instagram.comWhen I had a teaching job I hated (the kind of job where you long to be sick so you have an excuse for not going to work),
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
These passion job organizations are burnout factories. Every year, a new crop of eager recruits comes in, grateful to have landed a job doing work “they love” — and every year, a significant percentage of the existing workforce churns out. Some have been there that single year, others for five. They leave not because they’re not good “fits” for the... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • When Your Profession is On Fire
There is truly a bottomless pit of advice on how to do work faster, harder, and more efficiently, and all of these ideas have been comforting to me at various times in my career. Now, having made myself sick living like that, I find myself looking for new advice on how to adhere to some other approach, one that does not focus primarily on beating... See more
Rachel Katz • Giving Up Hustle Culture Doesn't Mean Giving Up
Unhappily biding my time in an office doing a job that doesn’t excite me? And on top of everything, come home and not be able to stop thinking about work? There is never any escape from the petty frictions and irritations of dealing with other people, and having to come down on them about squaring the accounts and books. I might as well be at work
... See moreMichiko Aoyama • What You Are Looking For Is in the Library: A Novel
Feel bad for the poor son of a bitch who hires the pathetic piece of shit that I am https://t.co/wG1MxcWTLQ
A slower approach to work is not only feasible, but is likely superior to the ad hoc pseudo-productivity that dictates the professional lives of so many today.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
So how do I find my purpose? Begin by asking yourself, What do I care about? Who do I enjoy serving? What gets me out of bed in the morning? What makes my heart beat? Then search for a way to live these things out. Look for a job that taps into those skills. Look for opportunities to volunteer that incorporate your strengths. Find ways at home and
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