Dr. Joy Horton-Bradford is host of the award-winning weekly podcast Therapy for Black Girls. She says we often think of our jobs not just as a means to an end, but as a deep reflection of who we are. The Happiness Lab explores what our wise inner voices might be quietly trying to tell us about our relationship with work.
We can put huge amounts of physical and emotional energy into our jobs - even basing our self-worth on our achievements at work and letting ourselves be defined by what we do. So have our careers taken over too much of our lives?
Simone Stolzoff (author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work) argues that we should stop hunting for the "perfect" job - that idealized career that will prove to others how smart, industrious or virtuous we are - and instead find an occupation that allows to us live happier and more rounded lives that don't revolve only around work.
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