I grew up expecting to love what I did for a living. I was encouraged to choose a career that I was passionate about. But when I did, I bumped up against the stark reality that work I loved didn’t pay the bills. At least not in any straightforward way. In this episode, I explore the context of “doing what you love” and how it shapes the way we build our businesses or careers today.Footnotes:Analysis of wages during the 90s (BLS)Eupsychian Management by Abraham MaslowTarget Commercial: “Come in for workout gear, leave feeling empowered.”Dan Olsen on The Ezra Klein ShowThe Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord“The Passion Paradigm: Professional Adherence to and Consequences of the Ideology of ‘Do What You Love’” by Lindsay DePalma“Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work” by Kathi WeeksWork Won’t Love You Back by Sarah JaffeMore about Lou Blaser and Midlife Cues“To My Brothers and Sisters In The Failure Business” by Seymour KrimWorks Progress Administration  

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