August 2022
Beginner
272 pages
4h 56m
English
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CHAPTER 4
DO YOU NEED TO FIND MEANING IN YOUR WORK?
THE CAREER COACH WHO SUPPORTS BORING JOBS
Lindsay Gordon brands her services as “career coaching for analytically minded people.” After all, coaching has a reputation for being touchy-feely, and not especially results-oriented. In 2014, Gordon started her company, A Life of Options, for people like her, who think strategically and want to know that their time with a coach will have immediate, practical applications to their work lives.
Gordon’s work caught my attention a few years ago, when I read a blog post she’d published about how it’s OK to have a boring job.1 “If it works for you and ...