When I went to my first job interview to be a teaching intern, I was asked the standard question. “Do you love children”. My response was this: Image by Getty Images via @daylife I know that’s a standard question that the interviewee is supposed to gush over with not only yes, but yes, yes, yes, [...]
So much of what passes for “professionalism” in a corporate environment is dysfunctional in life as a whole. In fact, when it begins to be believed, as a principle for life, it actually becomes mental illness. Image by stuant63 via Flickr Neurosis: includes the inability to separate perception from reality. “My perception is my reality.” [...]
One of the things that a business can do is sustain the very notion of what work means. It can use its resources to uphold the meaning of work itself, and so its own meaning, and the meaning of the myriad of endeavours on which its participants spend the vital years of their lives. Image [...]
Daniel writes prolifically about subjects ranging from work to social justice, does literary writing, and is Marketing Director of Free Agent Source. Daniel founded JobHacker (formerly the Rules of Work) blog when the bottom fell out of the mortgage market, and the US economy started its death rattle.
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