EP 384: Context Clues: Do you love your work?
Is loving your work all it's cracked up to be? And is the work you love meeting your needs?
May 31, 202237m 2s
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Show Notes
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
- Target Commercial: “Come in for workout gear, leave feeling empowered.”
- 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
- More about Lou Blaser and Midlife Cues
- “To My Brothers and Sisters In The Failure Business” by Seymour Krim
- Works Progress Administration
Topics
capitalismeconomicsphilosophysmall businessentrepreneurshippersonal growthculturefeminism