The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

by Simone Stolzoff

if you cultivate greater self-complexity and distinct sources of meaning, you’ll be better equipped to weather the inevitable challenges of life.

one of the great ironies of the twenty-first century: the reward for professional success is often just more work.

when you don’t take an active role in determining what you value, you inherit the values of the systems around you.

“If we recalled why we work in the first place—to pay the bills—we might wonder why we’re working so much for so little.”

developing a healthier relationship to work starts with defining what you want that relationship to be. If not, your employer will happily define the relationship for you.

Even if you are passionate about what you do, the urge to climb the career ladder’s endless rungs can taint the intrinsic rewards of what drew you to a particular line of work in the first place.