Brylee Jones

“Part of the reason vocational awe is so dangerous is because it preys on the fact so many workers do feel a passion—if not a calling—for the work that they do,” she told me. “Institutions rely on the fact that there will always be more passionate workers if the current workers leave.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

“Our society treats those who haven’t found a calling—who don’t love what they get paid to do—as if they’ve committed some kind of moral failure. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do,” Jobs proselytized at Stanford. “Life is too short not to follow your passion,” read proverbs on Instagram and LinkedIn. However, the notion that we should always love our job creates outsized expectations for what a job can deliver. It ignores the tedium that exists in every line of work, blinds us to the flaws a dream job may have, and creates conditions in which workers are willing to accept less than they deserve.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work