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The American claim that we should love and be passionate about our job may sound uplifting, or at least, harmless, but Do What You Loveexposes the tangible damages such rhetoric has leveled upon contemporary society.
Do you love what you do?
This mantra is so often repeated that it has become part of the Americanethos. Find a career that youre passionate about. Work hard and maintaina good attitude, be persistent, and all good things will come to you: wealth(or at least material comfort), job satisfaction, a sense of self-worth, and thehappiness that comes from achieving success in a profession that you havechosen and find fulfilling.
Except, as this penetrating, fact-filled book reveals, most of these ideasare lies, and have been co-opted by corporate interests as a way to pay theiremployees as little as possible, and to strip away the hard-won benefits andprotections that wage earners used to enjoy. After all, if you truly love whatyou do, pedestrian concerns about salary, health care, and retirement savingscan take a back seat. Passion and devotion are what matter. Therefore, unpaidinternships abound (theyre opportunities!), full-time positions are beingreplaced by freelance and contract work (its flexible!), and the amount ofdebt that one has to incur even to get in the game can be crippling.
Both a rallying cry for a disempowered workforce to reclaim its footingon the economic ladder, and an eye-opening expos of the ways that doingwhat you love can actually make your goals less achievable, this compact,insightful, and brilliantly argued call-to-arms might just spark a much-neededworkplace revolution.
