CHAPTER 8
Love it or leave it
Finding relevance in work
If time flies when you’re having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don’t think you’re having enough. JEF MALLETT
TO WARM UP MY STUDENTS for a class on motivation, we play a game called My Job is Worse Than Your Job. Since misery loves company, it is a lot of fun. We try to find the worst past employment experience in our group and then deconstruct the job to determine why it was so terrible. The room echoes with groans of sympathy as the students talk about summers spent shovelling pig manure or their scorching, exhausting and mosquito-plagued months spent tree planting. But invariably, ...
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