Employment+capitalism is like a shitty BDSM novel. No-one in their right mind would sign up to live it, but most are forced to do so by cultural norms. What you say about passion creating the opportunity for abuse is way real (seeing it more so now that I work at a non-profit).
On the point about how to work on things we don't care about - reading The Courage to Be Disliked provided some aha moments on this. Essentially, that most office-based (/bullshit?) jobs are so vague in their requirements of us that it's impossible to set decent boundaries and expectations for them ("what is my task?" has no decent answer), and therefore much of the anxiety, uncertainty and political wrangling needed to do those jobs reduces back down to carving out and protecting your own boundaries continuously. So I feel like the answer to skill #2 is skill #1.
I have not! This is interesting, thanks. I suspect it's unreasonable to expect everyone to have a true calling in this sense (I think it really is worth separating out the "What you can be paid to do" part), but it's still an interesting framework.
Employment+capitalism is like a shitty BDSM novel. No-one in their right mind would sign up to live it, but most are forced to do so by cultural norms. What you say about passion creating the opportunity for abuse is way real (seeing it more so now that I work at a non-profit).
On the point about how to work on things we don't care about - reading The Courage to Be Disliked provided some aha moments on this. Essentially, that most office-based (/bullshit?) jobs are so vague in their requirements of us that it's impossible to set decent boundaries and expectations for them ("what is my task?" has no decent answer), and therefore much of the anxiety, uncertainty and political wrangling needed to do those jobs reduces back down to carving out and protecting your own boundaries continuously. So I feel like the answer to skill #2 is skill #1.
I believe the actual title of the Thomas Green book is "Work, leisure, and the American schools"
It is! Thank you. Not sure how I managed to get that wrong. Fixed in the post now.
Have you heard of ikigai ? It's a Japanese concept which is usually presented as a 4 way Venn diagram, and represents our "true calling."
I have not! This is interesting, thanks. I suspect it's unreasonable to expect everyone to have a true calling in this sense (I think it really is worth separating out the "What you can be paid to do" part), but it's still an interesting framework.