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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
hopeful
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informative
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This book showed up at the perfect time. It talks about several topics that I had been pondering upon for several months. While I thought I would find answers in this book, instead I find clearness. This book does not provide you with answers about our jobs and career, but with ways and perspectives to help you find the balance between your identity and work.
One thing I remembered from this book is to ask myself often, what my identity is without my job title. For me, that is a very powerful question.
One thing I remembered from this book is to ask myself often, what my identity is without my job title. For me, that is a very powerful question.
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informative
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informative
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medium-paced
Solid 4 stars.
I really liked the message of this one and I'm probably going to incorporate some of the lessons from each chapter into my own workflow. It's easy to get wrapped up in meaningful work and forget who you are without it. The things that make each of us who we are go far beyond what we do for a living, even if that's sometimes a big part of each of us.
Absolutely recommended reading to anyone looking to learn more about what work-life balances actually look like outside of each of our own bubbles.
I really liked the message of this one and I'm probably going to incorporate some of the lessons from each chapter into my own workflow. It's easy to get wrapped up in meaningful work and forget who you are without it. The things that make each of us who we are go far beyond what we do for a living, even if that's sometimes a big part of each of us.
Absolutely recommended reading to anyone looking to learn more about what work-life balances actually look like outside of each of our own bubbles.
The Good Enough Job is a thoughtful, well-paced exploration of meaning and identity in modern work. The tone is engaging, but some ideas lack depth and clarity—mirroring the author’s own evolving journey. More data and discussion on long-term career building would strengthen it, particularly around the importance of experimentation in one's journey. Best read alongside the book, Working Identity.
In some ways I find this very relatable having a spouse who has worked a corporate position with “unlimited time off” (which means no time off) who felt compelled to return to work early from paternity leave while also waking up nauseous before work most mornings. Everything Stolzoff says makes sense, but I found his examples of how to be okay with a good enough job was largely only possible for people who’ve already established a comfortable financial lifestyle and have a safety net to fall back on while they take their sabbatical to learn to rest. I would’ve liked to hear more about people who are hustling and still barely surviving. I would have also appreciated some reference to all the work that must be done in a home and the challenge of having a career and children. He briefly alluded to these struggles and recognizes that his examples have some privilege but it feels unattainable to me at this point in my life. I’d love to see these changes made. I wish it was as simple as we think, but US culture makes me believe we will all eventually work ourselves to death.
He did a great job narrating and the stories were interesting and engaging, even if not totally relatable in one way or another. Short and sweet.
He did a great job narrating and the stories were interesting and engaging, even if not totally relatable in one way or another. Short and sweet.
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Such a good, reflection-provoking book!!!! Must read!!