I’ve coined the term The New Alt-American Dream to talk about a better healthier way of living and working.
I’m grateful that I used up only 9 years working in ill-fitting law and corporate office jobs in the mainstream. Luckily I didn’t waste 20 years like some people do chasing the big bucks in a career I thought I needed to have to get ahead.
By the time I was 32 I started graduate school. At 35 I was working at my job as a professional librarian.
In the coming blog carnival I’m going to write in a series of entries about The New Alt-American Dream.
After checking out over 2,500 items from the library I’ve become a Power User. I glean fresh insight and get ideas for what to write in my blogs by reading new nonfiction books every week.
To start out in the next blog entry I will assail the myth that doing what you love on a job is not possible. I will dispel that experiencing burnout on the job is inevitable.
In this blog entry too I’ll knock the chip off the shoulder of the media darling author who claims Black and Latinx workers are forced to take soul-sucking jobs to pay bills. Not so. Not at all.
As you’ll read soon The New Alt-American Dream is alive and well.
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