Stinde Pinde’s Reviews > The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work > Status Update

There is nothing wrong lining ur work with your interest or working hard refining your craft. Like it’s unrealistic to expect a spouse to for fill our social, emotional and intellectual needs, it is unrealistic to expect a job to be our soul method of actualisation. That is a burden our job are not designed to bear

Cultivating a healthy working culture becomes the responsibility of the individual it will always fail. The responsibility of better work culture lies in the workplace it self

Internal satisfaction for an activity may decrease when the promise of an external reward looms. Working exclusively for external reward rarely brings lasting fulfilment

When don’t trust our own definition of what is good we let other people define it for us. When we assume other values an our own, we undermine our autonomy. Instead determining our own term of success, we buy it off shelf.

One the myth that status equals success. When we say some on is successful, we rarely they are happy and healthy. We mean they make a lot of money

When we expect work to self actualise, to constantly motivate and for fill us, settling for anything less can feel like a failure.

The question is how to how to balance the pursuit of meaningful work with the risk letting the job subsume who u are.

Jobs has come to a kin of a religious identity. Addition to a pay check they provide meaning, community and a sense of purpose. workism = a workist seeks meaning for there work similar to how a religious person seeks meaning for their faith. Work has evolved for a choir, to a status, to means for self actualisation