74 sats \ 4 replies \ @Kontext 6 Sep \ on: Who Can Explain To Me The Point Of Work In The Modern Age? ideasfromtheedge
People conflate "having a job" and "working." Most people who have a job have it because they need to pay the bills. Most people who actually work do it because they cannot not do it. The word "profession" in Estonian is "elukutse" which literally translates to "life's calling" - which is what work should be all about IMO. Also, people like to define themselves via their job - it's quite widespread in the culture (you meet someone, one of the first things they ask is quite often "what do you do for a living?"). Some people (most people?) haven't truly found themselves so they think what they do is who they are...
The word "profession" in Estonian is "elukutse" which literally translates to "life's calling"
this gives the word "to act professionally" a better meaning: to act according to life's calling. instead, a profession is typically regulated by acts and statutes. #674373
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Well I don't have much more to add off the top of my head, maybe about the following:
why are so many people rendering their occupation the absolute center of their life?
I reckon that would have to do with the "meaning crisis" which in and of itself stems from the lack of religion/spirituality and strong family/community/tribal connections. In a Huberman Lab podcast with Dr James Hollis, Hollis said something, paraphrasing Carl Jung:
"People walked off the Medieval Cathedral into the Abyss of the Self."
Great topic btw 👊