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‘Why does my career suck?’ Archive

The Instinct for Meaningful Work and Fair Pay

Many young professionals and mid-career changers are leaving lucrative fields to find more meaningful work. They say their jobs don’t seem to matter; I’ve worked with hundreds of lawyers who don’t feel like their work is important or useful to others. In many cases, they’re not exaggerating.

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Simultaneously Happy and Unfulfilled?

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Commencement Speeches Are Too Late

 
By the time young people hear an inspiring commencement speech it’s too late—they are already pretty far down the wrong road.  The critical decision on what to major in has set them on a course with long-term consequences that won’t be apparent until long after they’ve graduated. 
 A career choice is immensely difficult; it’s one of [...]

Protected: The Career Choice Problem

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Why Societies (and Careers) Collapse

Video provided courtesy of CharlieRose.com
We make decisions today that will eventually shape our tomorrow.  In this video, Jared Diamond talks about his book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, an exhaustive study of the kinds of decisions that lead to a collapse of a society (e.g., Easter Island).   
Through his life’s work in evolutionary biology, accompanied [...]