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92. Divorcing Our Self-Worth from Work with Rainesford Stauffer

At Work with The Ready

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Dream Jobs Are a Myth

The book's title was kind of a brain storm between my agent, the book's editor and me. Originally it was pitched as having the title hash tag pest life to kind of dismantle the social mediotrope of the one sized fitzall best life that we're all supposed to aspire to. But ordinariness, we're all ordinary. We all experience that every day. It shapes our everyday lives, whether we realize it or not. And so many of the transitions that happen in young adulthood between work or panic are profoundly ordinary feelings.

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