There is a story I’ve heard time and time again: It’s about a millennial employee who gets a job in tech, struggles to find meaning in that job despite the beanbag chairs and the unlimited PTO, decides to get another job in tech―this one with the hope of more meaning, more passion. Press repeat.
I think, because we spend so much time in our careers, we hope they will somehow soothe our existential angst. Instead, we find them lacking the sort of substance they promise us, and, in an attempt to find it, we job hop, searching for meaning in our careers the way ascetics do in caves. Perhaps now I will be fulfilled, we think. Perhaps now I will.
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