“You have to be challenged in a healthy way,” he told me, shrugging a little; I think he felt embarrassed to say it. “You have to know that your voice counts. You have to know that if you have a good idea, you can speak up, and change something.” He had never had a job like that, and he feared he never would. If you spend so many of your waking hours deadening yourself to get through the day, it’s hard—he explained—to turn that off and be engaged with the people you love when you get home.
