by Annette
15. March 2007
It's pretty clear that many, if not most people, don't love their work. In fact, you could argue that corporations promote a kind of ghetto. They create jobs Studs Terkel decried as 'too small for our spirit'.
But many, if not most people, also refuse to let work be a ghetto. We propel forward with the expectation that we can force work to mean something more. The great Protestant preacher, Harry Emerson Fosdick recognized, 'Occasions when life ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer are profoundly satisfying.' When we pursue any occasion of creative expression we capture that satisfaction. Even in the places we least expect it. At work.
