You’ve no doubt seen the sentiment plastered on an Etsy mug or in the caption of some influencer posting from the beach on a Tuesday afternoon: Choose a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. Setting aside the ridiculousness of the idea we can all just “choose” what we we want our job to be, stuff like this seems to be making the case that the surest path to professional happiness is to gravitate toward work that doesn’t
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It's okay for work to feel like work
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You’ve no doubt seen the sentiment plastered on an Etsy mug or in the caption of some influencer posting from the beach on a Tuesday afternoon: Choose a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. Setting aside the ridiculousness of the idea we can all just “choose” what we we want our job to be, stuff like this seems to be making the case that the surest path to professional happiness is to gravitate toward work that doesn’t