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Worked Up: Navigating Calling after College
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Worked Up comes in four different cover colors to choose from. Navigating life after college is difficult. Friendships change, transitions are tough, and answering the "right" call to work may feel like a job in and of itself. Regardless of how you feel about this new chapter — excited, enthusiastic, anxious, or nervous — answering the "call" to work after years of endless homework, curated schedules, and fewer limits on free time can often leave us feeling worked up, for one reason or another. Let's face Adulthood is hard. If you're in a season of change after college, Worked Up is for you. Diving into complex issues like faith, work, calling, and anxiety, the authors of this book aim to give you a solid foundation in a season that feels uncertain. For all the weary college students, the stressed-out high schoolers, and those shackled by anxiety surrounding the future, this book is for you. This book is intended to serve you as you navigate all of life’s callings both in this season and the seasons ahead. Worked Up isn't only for reading. It includes sections for you to brainstorm, engage with the material, and work out your thoughts about career and calling. Take it with you as you go to coffee shops, the park, or even your job and use it as a guide (along with Scripture) to help you take the next step in where God is leading you. Work doesn't have to make us worked up, and taking time to reflect, pray, and consider what's best next is what this book will help you do!
Worked Up comes in four different cover colors to choose from. Navigating life after college is difficult. Friendships change, transitions are tough, and answering the "right" call to work may feel like a job in and of itself. Regardless of how you feel about this new chapter — excited, enthusiastic, anxious, or nervous — answering the "call" to work after years of endless homework, curated schedules, and fewer limits on free time can often leave us feeling worked up, for one reason or another. Let's face Adulthood is hard. If you're in a season of change after college, Worked Up is for you. Diving into complex issues like faith, work, calling, and anxiety, the authors of this book aim to give you a solid foundation in a season that feels uncertain. For all the weary college students, the stressed-out high schoolers, and those shackled by anxiety surrounding the future, this book is for you. This book is intended to serve you as you navigate all of life’s callings both in this season and the seasons ahead. Worked Up isn't only for reading. It includes sections for you to brainstorm, engage with the material, and work out your thoughts about career and calling. Take it with you as you go to coffee shops, the park, or even your job and use it as a guide (along with Scripture) to help you take the next step in where God is leading you. Work doesn't have to make us worked up, and taking time to reflect, pray, and consider what's best next is what this book will help you do!
52 pages, Paperback
Published October 3, 2019
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June 17, 2024
Wiley and Bobo’s Worked Up is an important resource for those of us who still haven’t become what we “plan” to become, career-wise.
In our capitalist society, where we are what we produce, one’s career takes up a great deal of space in our plans and aspirations. And sometimes this hyperfixation on what we want to do for a living can lead us to lose sight of our greater vocations or callings.
Worked Up is a reminder that work is created by God. And that as workers, we can craft and create and contribute to God’s glory. And because our work is more of a pointer towards God rather than our purpose, it need not become our obsession—or even our idol.
In truth, there are many ways that we can honor God through our work. It isn’t as though we must pick THE right career so that God would be pleased with us. Ironically, we treat work like salvation is works- or work-based, when in reality we are saved and sanctified by God’s grace through faith.
The only criticism I would suggest is that too often when we point back to God’s good intentions for work, we can let the fallen reality of work become invisible. We must pay close attention to the ways in which God’s creation, including labor, has been perverted. That is not to say that work is completely evil and irredeemable. But it is to say that we cannot simply say that “God created work and work is good” when we also live in societies that exploit workers, exploit earth’s resources unsustainably, and all too often trod upon the broken dignities of the poor and the unfortunate.
The fact that God created work should not lead us to a blind celebration of our being producers. Rather, it should also lead us to sojourn for just forms of labor and production.
In our capitalist society, where we are what we produce, one’s career takes up a great deal of space in our plans and aspirations. And sometimes this hyperfixation on what we want to do for a living can lead us to lose sight of our greater vocations or callings.
Worked Up is a reminder that work is created by God. And that as workers, we can craft and create and contribute to God’s glory. And because our work is more of a pointer towards God rather than our purpose, it need not become our obsession—or even our idol.
In truth, there are many ways that we can honor God through our work. It isn’t as though we must pick THE right career so that God would be pleased with us. Ironically, we treat work like salvation is works- or work-based, when in reality we are saved and sanctified by God’s grace through faith.
The only criticism I would suggest is that too often when we point back to God’s good intentions for work, we can let the fallen reality of work become invisible. We must pay close attention to the ways in which God’s creation, including labor, has been perverted. That is not to say that work is completely evil and irredeemable. But it is to say that we cannot simply say that “God created work and work is good” when we also live in societies that exploit workers, exploit earth’s resources unsustainably, and all too often trod upon the broken dignities of the poor and the unfortunate.
The fact that God created work should not lead us to a blind celebration of our being producers. Rather, it should also lead us to sojourn for just forms of labor and production.
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