Do you love your job?
Unfortunately, not many people do. But even though there might be things about it that you don’t like, you can still invest in your future, much like Flannery O’Connor writes in Everything That Rises Must Converge (also available on Audible):
If you know who you are you can go anywhere.
For more advice, here are my favourite Seth Godin quotes from his 2024 posts, together with a recommended title from Blinkist.
A career is not a series of tasks. It’s the chance to build things. ~ Projects and the long haul
Learn more: Irreplaceable
Adding value isn’t easy. As soon as it is, everyone will do it, and our participation becomes less useful. ~ Sudare sette camicie
Learn more: Disrupt Yourself
AI replaces mediocre work long before it provides a realistic or better alternative to the nuance, passion and insight that a human brings. But the arc here is clear. ~ Thoughts on audiobooks
Learn more: The Future of the Professions
As we get older, our natural ability to thrive in a new situation can decrease. But, like a muscle or a skill, it responds to practice. ~ Plasticity
Learn more: Rewired
Few of us do the hard work of manual labor these days. Instead, we have the chance to sign up to work hard on solving useful problems in a way that’s generative and resilient. ~ Play fair & work hard
Learn more: The Joy of Work
If people are confused about what they do, perhaps that’s why it’s hard to move forward. ~ The marketing department
Learn more: Job Therapy
If you’re not regularly getting better at your digital toolbox, you’re actually getting worse. ~ Sharp tools
Learn more: Future Fit
In your work, are you fighting the change or leading it? It’s hard to see us going back. ~ Redefining a profession
Learn more: Change Proof
Just because it feels easy at first doesn’t mean that it’s a worthwhile career path. ~ Kazoo lessons
Learn more: The Success Trap
The most useful work we create causes a change to happen. And the more profound the change, the less predictable it is. ~ Comfortable with the fuzziness
Learn more: Cracked It
There’s no such thing as work life balance. There’s simply life. And you spend part of your life at work. ~ Boyle’s Law
Learn more: The Work-Life Balance Myth
Unless we’re interviewing for people who have interviewing as their job, there isn’t a lot of evidence that doing a great job in the interview means you’re going to do a great job. ~ Phrenology
Learn more: I Hate Job Interviews
We can always do a better job of finding the place where we might thrive. And a better job of living and telling the story that earns us a chance to get to that place. But the chances that you were fully seen and rejected as a person are slight indeed. ~ I didn’t get in
Learn more: Career Confidence
We don’t need a better digital resume, or a way to get the word out. We need to get much smarter about what we want, why we want it and what’s likely to work. ~ Transforming two-sided markets
Learn more: Control the Narrative
When we choose a project where the stakes are too high, where stress is our fuel, where conflict is at the heart of the work–we’re unlikely to find ease. ~ Moving toward ease
Learn more: Burned Out to Lit Up
When we have a project, part of the work is to enlist others in figuring out how to make the change we seek. ~ How can I help?
Learn more: Team
While the unreasonable is thrilling, it’s difficult to build a sustainable career around it. ~ The last little bit
Learn more: Rebel Talent
Working harder is rarely a better plan than finding better tools. ~ PW 4: Productivity and tools
Learn more: The Art of Laziness
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