The biggest hurdle that prevents people from doing their best work is actually the assumption that all we are is work. I think it's more of a cultural mentality, rorn of the fact that for so many of us, work is connected to things like health care and housing or resources. It's connected to our identities in ways that you can't entirely flip off or disconnect from at the end of the day. And i think that what well actually allow people to do their best work and be supported in whatever that looks like for them.
The workforce is changing. Millennials are turning into elder millennials and Zoomers are turning into employed adults, thus shifting the makeup of the modern working population—and its values. Long gone are any romantic or bootstrappy notions of “paying your dues,” which, in many work environments, is just shorthand for dealing with toxicity and subpar pay; there are fewer people receiving chintzy gifts for 35-year anniversaries at the same company.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans speak with journalist Rainesford Stauffer, author of the new book "An Ordinary Age," about the exceptionalism bubble; how work crises have ballooned into identity crises; the mythology of the “dream job”; and how young adults are already shaping—and challenging—the future of work.
Learn more about Rainesford's work and buy her book here: https://rainesford.medium.com/
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