My job is ‘just a job’ — and that’s totally fine

Our jobs—what we do—hover heavily over our very existence. Before the pandemic, a lot of job advice was about pursuing your passion, as though our purpose in life must be defined by our job or hustling till we drop from exhaustion. Now, all I hear about is burnout and The Great Resignation. Either way, the conversation about our lives is always a conversation about our work. Why do our jobs have to dominate so much of our life? What if there’s another way to look at work? Maybe your job is just a job. I like my job, but the…

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