Category Archives: What is work?

How We Use Work To Avoid Our Selves

How was your weekend? Glad to be back at work for a rest? Me? Well, I was caught off guard yesterday when I stumbled upon my divorce certificate while hunting for other documents. Maybe it was because I’d been having such a delicious weekend. On Saturday I’d done a wicked Bodypump class, met up with…

Doing Your Real Work

Today I’m delighted to welcome the super-talented Tara Sophia Mohr. Her beautiful piece challenges us to consider what our real work is – and how we can do it, irrespective of what job we might currently be doing. Work Worthy of You There you are. You. A sacred human being, with your particular form of…

Is Yours A Job, Career, or Calling?

Monday morning. How did it feel to get out of bed and anticipate another week? Much of your answer will depend on how you choose to see the work you do. Job If you see your work as a job, you consider it primarily as something you do for money. That’s not to say that,…

Unhappy at work? An alternative look at this week’s job satisfaction statistics

Did you see that this Tuesday The Associate Press reported on The Conference Board’s survey findings on work satisfaction. In a nutshell: Only 45% of Americans are satisfied with their work. This is the lowest level recorded in 22 years of this survey Only 51% of people find their jobs interesting Of the under 25s,…

What is “work”?

“Work is about the search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as for cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” Studs Terkel (1974) Have you ever stopped to really think about this thing we…

Category Archives: What is work?

How We Use Work To Avoid Our Selves

How was your weekend? Glad to be back at work for a rest? Me? Well, I was caught off guard yesterday when I stumbled upon my divorce certificate while hunting for other documents. Maybe it was because I’d been having such a delicious weekend. On Saturday I’d done a wicked Bodypump class, met up with…

Doing Your Real Work

Today I’m delighted to welcome the super-talented Tara Sophia Mohr. Her beautiful piece challenges us to consider what our real work is – and how we can do it, irrespective of what job we might currently be doing. Work Worthy of You There you are. You. A sacred human being, with your particular form of…

Is Yours A Job, Career, or Calling?

Monday morning. How did it feel to get out of bed and anticipate another week? Much of your answer will depend on how you choose to see the work you do. Job If you see your work as a job, you consider it primarily as something you do for money. That’s not to say that,…

Unhappy at work? An alternative look at this week’s job satisfaction statistics

Did you see that this Tuesday The Associate Press reported on The Conference Board’s survey findings on work satisfaction. In a nutshell: Only 45% of Americans are satisfied with their work. This is the lowest level recorded in 22 years of this survey Only 51% of people find their jobs interesting Of the under 25s,…

What is “work”?

“Work is about the search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as for cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” Studs Terkel (1974) Have you ever stopped to really think about this thing we…

Category Archives: What is work?

How We Use Work To Avoid Our Selves

How was your weekend? Glad to be back at work for a rest? Me? Well, I was caught off guard yesterday when I stumbled upon my divorce certificate while hunting for other documents. Maybe it was because I’d been having such a delicious weekend. On Saturday I’d done a wicked Bodypump class, met up with…

Doing Your Real Work

Today I’m delighted to welcome the super-talented Tara Sophia Mohr. Her beautiful piece challenges us to consider what our real work is – and how we can do it, irrespective of what job we might currently be doing. Work Worthy of You There you are. You. A sacred human being, with your particular form of…

Is Yours A Job, Career, or Calling?

Monday morning. How did it feel to get out of bed and anticipate another week? Much of your answer will depend on how you choose to see the work you do. Job If you see your work as a job, you consider it primarily as something you do for money. That’s not to say that,…

Unhappy at work? An alternative look at this week’s job satisfaction statistics

Did you see that this Tuesday The Associate Press reported on The Conference Board’s survey findings on work satisfaction. In a nutshell: Only 45% of Americans are satisfied with their work. This is the lowest level recorded in 22 years of this survey Only 51% of people find their jobs interesting Of the under 25s,…

What is “work”?

“Work is about the search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as for cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” Studs Terkel (1974) Have you ever stopped to really think about this thing we…