Tag: job
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Mankindness
In recent weeks, I’ve been going through what a dear friend calls a “humbling experience”. I’ve been job hunting. The desire for external validation being one of my strongest weaknesses, I find job hunting particularly draining. Leads gone cold, e-mails not responded to, applications gently yet firmly rejected. It all fuels this mild panic, an…
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Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (TED)
… it’s bad enough not getting what you want. But it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn’t in fact what you wanted all along.
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On Work
Why do we work? To earn a living? For something else? For something more? I am at work. And I am feeling restless. No, I am not blogging during working hours. It is lunchtime. And since I’m not hungry, I might as well substitute physical for psychological nourishment. There is a lot of change happening…
Val Saksornchai 