Archive for the ‘work’ tag
How To Be a Happy Worker #
It’s probably not perfect, but Bud Caddell’s Venn diagram (which you’re probably seen by now) is something I’ve been indirectly seeking for at least five years.
(via, among many others, Notes to Self)
What Should I Do With My Life? #
Po Bronson, who wrote an admirable book a few years ago, revisits the question. He’s good at cutting through the loads of bullshit regularly dispensed to those seeking a new career.
Don’t tell me you don’t know what you want from your life. Don’t ever say that, don’t ever fool yourself into that stupor. Of course you know what you want — you know the feeling you desire — fulfillment, connection, responsibility, and some excitement. The real problem is figuring out how to get it — how to find a path that doesn’t suffocate those natural feelings in you. Which is hard. Of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it weren’t hard, you wouldn’t learn anything along the way, and thus you would never get there. If you don’t know how to make the best of a bad situation, you will never get there. If you are not willing to put up with some shit work, you will never recognize that a good opportunity is staring you in the face. If you are not willing to be humble and repeatedly be a beginner in new areas and learn the details faster than the next guy, you are not capable of transformation.
(via Mark Larson, who points to the printer-friendly version)
How To Do What You Love #
I’ve probably landed on this Paul Graham essay 100 times and looked at it seriously at least ten. But today was the first I really read it and realized its value.
Your Triangles #
As I sit here dreading another Monday, I would like to point people in the direction of a nice graphical representation of an idea I like.
(via Tomorrow Museum)
Work and Vacations #
Two charts:
- Americans like to think they work a lot. Though they put Western Europe to shame, South Korea blows them (and everyone else in the OECD) away.
- On the other hand, Expedia’s embarassingly basic and self-promoting survey found that Americans earn fewer vacation days than Western Europes four biggest countries, but they leave fewer of those on the table than the Spanish.