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Question: Why Do You Work?

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Question: Why Do You Work?

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Feb 2, 2021
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Assume that you have everything you need to live your life. 

Would you continue doing (working at) what you do?

If not - what stops you from making that change right now?

If you would continue - what do you do?

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BarbaraF
Feb 24, 2021Liked by John Philpin

I’ve been discussing these questions with myself quite often lately, having retired from a always-on corporate tech career last year. I always assumed I would jump straight into writing and volunteering with unlimited freedom of retirement. Yet I have not jumped in. Why kit? At first I was stunned senseless by my empty calendar. Cured quickly. The blocky thing that is lingering, I’m realizing, is that I’m missing my work tribes.

Every company - its colleagues, customers and partners - is a tribe. Working has always been a way to join/evolve/affect a global tribal community. Find people with shared values, different perspectives. Grow with them. Help them along their growth path.

I’m not going to take a job to get that sense of community back. I do want to find a way to replace it.

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Robert Golladay
Feb 15, 2021Liked by John Philpin

One of your (John's) summary points - "We have our dreams, but fear holds us back". I thought about this....when I had kids, one of the overriding themes became "Provider". And, I think, directed my focus to both purpose and income. Growing up relatively poor, my parents did the best they could. And encouraged me to go to college. Which I did, but with plenty of 9% student loans and a 20-hour per week job at UPS.

So I wanted to get my kids through higher education without incurring debt. Work got that done. Was there an element of fear? I don't know. did it "throttle" my choices in work? Perhaps. Any regrets? no

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