A job is just one part of who we are, but not the entirety of our lives. It's easy to mistake a job or professional success as the silver bullet that will make the rest of our lives fall in place. I can't tell you how many people I interviewed for the book who have achieved levels of personal success and have still felt unfulfilled.
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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