Never Having to Say, "It's Just a Job"
With recent graduates ready to join the workforce, the next installation in our School of Life's philosophical self-help series looks at the problem of finding a job that adds meaning to our lives, not just paychecks. Roman Krznaric, cultural thinker and founding faculty member of The School of Life, author of The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live, Empathy: Why It Matters and How to Get It and How to Find Fulfilling Work discusses the (fortunate) problem of figuring out how to love your work.
Interning, job shadowing + volunteering: all good so you know what you're getting yourself into on the job front, says Roman Krznaric.
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Roman Krznaric says he knows someone who took a "radical sabbatical." She took a year off to try 30 jobs (!).
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More realistically though -- take a job, any job, then figure out at nights & on weekends what you REALLY want to do.
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Most of our waking hours are spent at work, so it makes sense to ask yourself how you can make it more fulfilling, says Roman Krznaric.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 15, 2015
