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May 31, 2022

EP 384: Context Clues: Do you love your work?

37 minutes

I grew up expecting to love what I did for a living. I was encouraged to choose a career that I was passionate about. But when I did, I bumped up against the stark reality that work I loved didn’t pay the bills. At least not in any straightforward way. In this episode, I explore the context of “doing what you love” and how it shapes the way we build our businesses or careers today.

Footnotes:

Analysis of wages during the 90s (BLS)

Eupsychian Management by Abraham Maslow

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Dan Olsen on The Ezra Klein Show

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

“The Passion Paradigm: Professional Adherence to and Consequences of the Ideology of ‘Do What You Love’” by Lindsay DePalma

“Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work” by Kathi Weeks

Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe

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