The Good Enough Job - Simone Stolzoff

The Good Enough Job

By Simone Stolzoff

  • Release Date: 2023-05-23
  • Genre: Business & Personal Finance
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 27 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman

A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches.


From the moment we ask children what they want to “be” when they grow up, we exalt the dream job as if it were life’s ultimate objective. Many entangle their identities with their jobs, with predictable damage to happiness, wellbeing, and even professional success.
 
In The Good Enough Job, journalist Simone Stolzoff traces how work has come to dominate Americans’ lives—and why we find it so difficult to let go. Based on groundbreaking reporting and interviews with Michelin star chefs, Wall Street bankers, overwhelmed teachers and other workers across the American economy, Stolzoff exposes what we lose when we expect work to be more than a job. Rather than treat work as a calling or a dream, he asks what it would take to reframe work as a part of life rather than the entirety of our lives. What does it mean for a job to be good enough?
 
Through provocative critique and deep reporting, Stolzoff punctures the myths that keep us chained to our jobs. By exposing the lies we--and our employers--tell about the value of our labor, The Good Enough Job makes the urgent case for reclaiming our lives in a world centered around work.

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Latest Impressions

  • Best book so far on work culture

    5
    By 狗娃2016
    I heard about this book on Blind. A social network talking about user’s work place. As someone who constantly burning candle during the pandemic and got let go twice, I almost cried after purchasing this book. I felt like crying after finishing each chapter. It lifts the burden of defining one’s identity with work from me.