🔑 Key: Understanding what a good enough job means to you, and recognizing when you have it!

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Understanding what good enough means to you in terms of salary, title, industry, work-life balance, and aligning it with your values can help you recognize when you have a good enough job. Pursuing meaningful work without letting it consume your identity is important. Chasing more and more without knowing the purpose leads to restlessness and lack of fulfillment. However, completely quitting or rejecting work is not a recipe for fulfillment either, as we still need to meet our material needs. Viewing work as a necessary evil is not conducive to happiness.

Do you live to work or work to live? In this episode, Cal talks with author Simone Stolfzoff about his provocative new book, THE GOOD ENOUGH JOB. Cal then answers listener questions about escaping professional unhappiness, and then switches gears in the Something Interesting segment to talk about the critical technological breakthrough that not enough people yet are talking about.

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DEEP DIVE: Cal talks about the Good Enough Job with author Simone Stolzoff [4:39]

- What kind of a job do I want? [59:31]

- If I enjoy my job, why can’t I focus? [1:05:28]

- Should I give up on finding an academic job? [1:17:23]

- Should I cut my salary in half to escape the hyperactive hive mind? [1:25:07]

SOMETHING INTERESTING: Apple’s most interesting new tech strategy has nothing to do with A.I. [1:34:41]

Links:

wsj.com/articles/apple-is-breaking-its-own-rules-with-a-new-headset-80c9b36c

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