Why do we spend 8 to 12 hours a day ‘working’? A huge chunk of our lives is taken up by this thing called ‘work’. What gets us up in the morning and what is it that gets us going? Are we working to pursue a specific goal? Or are we simply going through the motions to make a living?
We often don’t link the notion of meaning to our jobs. Today’s mainstream work culture can lead us to believe that security and financial stability takes precedence over work that is aligned with our aspirations and passions.
It’s natural we question what we do, but it’s not often we make changes to our work situation. Why is this? We feel comfortable, we are not sure what might be better, we can’t find the time to figure it out because we are ‘too busy’ with our jobs. So we do not make changes to where or even how we work.
The Internet has done wonderful things for transparency, in our small way we trying to contribute to the transparency and define what it means to go to ‘work’; either as a designer, or as a writer, in a small company in Brazil or in a large corporation in Sweden.
But, getting to WHY we do what we do still has a way to go. We, as humans, might not yet be conditioned to share ‘those’ kind of feelings in the context of conversations about work. At the same time we have, and you know as a reader of this newsletter, seen community members be very open about WHY they do what they do. We need more of that - on Somewhere and in the world in general.
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Some of our Favourite Sparks from last week:
Kristy’s interview with street photographer Meydenberg https://www.somewhere.com/Urbankristy/sparks/23323
Christina completing a course on use behaviour.
https://www.somewhere.com/christina6/sparks/23177
Alexis accepting challenges for growth https://www.somewhere.com/alexis/sparks/23191
Mads learning from past mistakes https://www.somewhere.com/MadsFuhr/sparks/23218
Jeanna’s multifunctional ping-pong table at work https://www.somewhere.com/jeannahamilton/sparks/23367