Reading the above book has gotten me interested in advocating for worker’s rights.
In here I’m going to write a blog carnival of entries with my concrete ideas about how to take back your life.
Sarah Jaffe the author claims that work cannot ever be seen as the source of love. That a worker can only find joy and happiness outside of paid labor.
In my view it’s okay to love what you do on the job. It’s not okay for management to pay workers “poverty pay.”
The Jaffe book expounds on the other books that have exposed the myth: Do What You Love and Other Lies. We Are All Fastfood Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages.
I read these two other books years ago. What the three books fall short on doing is that they don’t offer alternatives. They don’t offer solutions to taking back your life.
In the coming blog entries, I will detail positive techniques for enjoying what you do on and off the job.
One thing that Jaffe states at the end I do agree with: instituting fewer hours in the workday. How about a 4-day workweek? This is a move in the right direction.
Coming up in the next blog entry: how to rekindle from burnout.
Numbing yourself with alcohol or going on a vacation you can’t afford is not the way to cope with a soul-crushing job.
It’s my contention that a job doesn’t have to be drudgery.
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