Sunday, May 10, 2015

Self-Culture Through Vocation

Introduction:
We want to spend our time doing something worthwhile. The typical jobs in which we find ourselves seem to be full of the mundane and uninteresting. We lurch from one weekend to the next; from finishing one holiday to booking another. And often lack of enjoyment can show itself in shabby work. And we feel trapped. The need to earn to meet our living costs means we have little time to get ourselves free.

There is no simple solution to this. The magic formulas just seem to work for others. But there are those who have reflected and written helpfully on these issues - not with glib advice, but with deep thoughtful correctives. And they wrote from the height of the industrial age when work was mundane, the hours was longer, and pay was worse. ...


 

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