
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
We can put huge amounts of physical and emotional energy into our jobs - even basing our self-worth on our achievements at work and letting ourselves be defined by what we do. So have our careers taken over too much of our lives?
Simone Stolzoff (author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work) argues that we should stop hunting for the "perfect" job - that idealized career that will prove to others how smart, industrious or virtuous we are - and instead find an occupation that allows to us live happier and more rounded lives that don't revolve only around work.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
4.7
1384013,840 ratings
We can put huge amounts of physical and emotional energy into our jobs - even basing our self-worth on our achievements at work and letting ourselves be defined by what we do. So have our careers taken over too much of our lives?
Simone Stolzoff (author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work) argues that we should stop hunting for the "perfect" job - that idealized career that will prove to others how smart, industrious or virtuous we are - and instead find an occupation that allows to us live happier and more rounded lives that don't revolve only around work.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
3,278 Listeners
2,504 Listeners
12,931 Listeners
43,330 Listeners
830 Listeners
12,544 Listeners
59,467 Listeners
4,121 Listeners
1,876 Listeners
9,271 Listeners
4,320 Listeners
573 Listeners
23,607 Listeners
405 Listeners
72 Listeners
3,726 Listeners
80 Listeners
412 Listeners
1,336 Listeners
617 Listeners
1,986 Listeners
41,225 Listeners
1,207 Listeners
232 Listeners
264 Listeners
433 Listeners
148 Listeners
369 Listeners
332 Listeners
20,678 Listeners
31 Listeners
96 Listeners
77 Listeners
251 Listeners