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, but I don't think it's possible to love people in general. I think one … [Read more...]
Work As Therapy, not Disease
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 FlickrNeurosis: includes the inability to separate perception from reality. "My perception is my reality." You hear it in corporate staff … [Read more...]
Unpopular Comments on Unpopular People
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 by The Library of Congress via Flickr Almost every culture has a large segment of … [Read more...]
