I grew up expecting to love what I did for a living. I was encouraged to choose a career that I was passionate about. But when I did, I bumped up against the stark reality that work I loved didn’t pay the bills. At least not in any straightforward way. In this episode, I explore the context of “doing what you love” and how it shapes the way we build our businesses or careers today.

Footnotes:

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  Analysis of wages during the 90s (BLS)
  
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  Eupsychian Management by Abraham Maslow
  
• Target Commercial: “Come in for workout gear, leave feeling empowered.”
  
• Dan Olsen on The Ezra Klein Show
  
  
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  The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
  
• “The Passion Paradigm: Professional Adherence to and Consequences of the Ideology of ‘Do What You Love’” by Lindsay DePalma
  
• “Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work” by Kathi Weeks
  
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  Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe
  
• More about Lou Blaser and Midlife Cues
  
• “To My Brothers and Sisters In The Failure Business” by Seymour Krim
  
• Works Progress Administration
  

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