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The Search For Meaningful Work

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Most people prefer no work at all to meaningless work, or wasted work, or made work.... If work is meaningless, then life comes close to being meaningless. - Abraham Maslow As a young idealist in the 1960s, with experience in computer systems analysis and programming, I responded to the culture wars brought on by Vietnam by selling my Porsche 911 and going to work for Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers, for room, board and $5 a week. My job was to computerize the union's membership … [Read more...]

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