#purposeful work

[1whoconquers]

Immersed in Purpose: Overcoming Distractions with Meaningful Work

Immersed in Purpose: Overcoming Distractions with Meaningful Work

[nciwch]

A few of my favorite works...

At our Parent Night last week, the students each chose 3 of their favorite works for their parents to come in and try.  It was absolutely wonderful to see the enthusiasm and energy in the parents and their admiration at their childrens’ capabilities.

[nciwch]

Who says 6-year old boys don’t like to fold laundry?

[stregre-blog]

redefining work . for a generation who wants to put their energies and intellect into something meaningful in their lives and for society .  

Our imperative is to connect people to purpose

"It's an amazing time we live in, overall society is hungry for doing things differently and we face a series of challenges that need to be addressed. This is the moment to stand up and make purpose our priority." Aaron Hurst. 

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028636/how-do-you-create-a-new-economy-based-on-purpose-and-meaningful-relationships 

[thirtysomethingadventures]

Knife Edge

I did my taxes today. Tax Prep Day is that special day every year when, no matter the size of my return, I feel shitty about myself because of the bottom line. One year, when I was living in an uninsulated house with four dudes in the middle of a Vermont winter and working at a deli after being laid off by the wilderness therapy program, I found not enough was withheld and I had to pay $300. That was the worst, because the deli job paid far less than my prior job, I was preparing for my AT hike, and there was not $300 to spare. So today wasn't so bad, but it wasn't great.

The kicker? I made more this year than I did last year. In fact, it was an all-time high. (It went to the black hole of paying off debt and moving across the country for a temporary job...twice.) The thing is, despite the adventures I've had and trails I've occasionally blazed, when I see I earned two-thirds of the starting salary of a 2013 college grad, I don't feel so accomplished. This is the monetary value of my college degree and ten years of chasing dreams and refusing to compromise my passion?

Yes, it is. I could probably choose to market or monetize my skills in other ways. Am I even using those words right? That's how far away I am from the business world. Anyway, instead I choose to try to be a law enforcement ranger, and right now that means working seasonally. When I looked at the number at the bottom of my tax return today, and thought about money still owed to Former (not much more!), the cost of insurance, my complete and utter lack of a retirement plan, zero savings (well, there is some, but it's earmarked for Former), 200,000 miles on my truck, and so on...I wondered if it was worth it. Should I sell out and get another job. Can I sell out and get another job? Do I even have any quantifiable, marketable skills beyond the service sector? (Answer: yes, of course, but I don't know yet how to quantify and market them.) Because...come on, apparently even a freshly minted humanities graduate can acquire more security money security.

And there it is, the emotion that's left when all the layers are scraped away. It's not how much or little money I have, it's feeling a half step away from disaster whether it comes tomorrow or 40 years from now. So this isn't about money or security. At bottom, it's about fear. It's about the mastery of fear. Theodore Roosevelt was afraid of many things, and he mastered fear by acting as if he wasn't afraid until he really wasn't. Even as I am on the precipice of launching a career, accumulating a nest egg, saving for retirement, attaining the dreams...I feel very, very vulnerable. I never did like hiking knife edge trails. Theodore Roosevelt might suggest that the solution is simply to traverse the knife edge with the outward appearance of taking a walk in the park.

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(( )) Dalia Mikonytė

„Tikslingas darbas / Purposeful work“

Instaliacija / Installation

The work analyses my identity, as a female, relation with feminist theory and practice.  Installation reflects and summarizes all my searching and discoveries of  four years studying, links two achieved or not achieved specialities, reconsiders feminist and women`s art, who was always challenging and influential for me, and revises learning-studying as a process of becoming an artist.

Kūrinyje nagrinėjama mano, kaip moters, tapatybė, santykis su feminizmo teorija ir praktika. Instaliacija atspindi ir apibendrina visų mano keturių studijavimo metų ieškojimus ir atradimus, susieja abi įgytas ar neįgytas specialybes, peržvelgia visada mane labiausiai dominusį ir veikusį feministinį ir moterų meną, bei patį mokymąsi-studijavimą, kaip tapimo menininke procesą.

2011, Vilnius