The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff

BATB score: 10/10 👏👏👏

*required reading for office employees* we need to redefine our relationship with work because it is overrated and unhealthy

Best for: any one who has said they are ‘passionate’ about the industry, company, or role; do know that the feeling was never mutual 💔

Best as: if only we can compete on who has better work-life balance instead of who has better work success (over what sacrifice), life would be so much more enriching and interesting

BATB linger thought: “A workist [from workism] seeks meaning from their work similar to how a religious person seeks meaning from their faith.” I don’t want to be a workist anymore! It’s just a job to pay the bills and nothing else. Go to work. Get your money. Come on home. I am who I am when I am not working.

Best to: instead of asking “what do you do?” let’s start asking “what do you like to do?”

Best quotes: “Work will always be work. Some people work doing what they love. Other people work so that they can do what they love when they’re not working. Neither is more noble.”

“Too many people bring the best of themselves to work, and bring the leftovers home.” Yet “The reward for professional success is often just more work.”

“Do what you love and you’ll work super fucking hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally.”

“When we say someone is successful, we rarely mean they are happy and healthy. We mean they make a lot of money.”

“On the other side of deprioritizing work is prioritizing life.” so be proud.