In school, I eagerly absorbed the promise that if I worked hard and proved myself, I’d put myself on a fast-track career path to happiness and fulfillment. To me, work was never about making lots of money. It was about contributing to the greater good. And surely if I was contributing to something meaningful, that would make me happy. Right? Wrong. I was fortunate to do work in my career that did contribute good to the world, from my first internship at National Public Radio to the job I held for most of my career, as a communications consultant to political and social cause campaigns. I
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