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So I may have mentioned once or twice that I have had a terrible ten years of rendundancy, unemployment, and shit.
I want to share with you a few books that have really, really helped. They're not about resilience or finding work, they're about changing how you think about work
I want to share with you a few books that have really, really helped. They're not about resilience or finding work, they're about changing how you think about work
1: In Praise Of Idleness by Bertrand Russell.
He was writing stuff like "...a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work" back in 1932!
The essay itself is here: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html https://www.readings.com.au/products/1597628/in-praise-of-idleness-and-other-essays
He was writing stuff like "...a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work" back in 1932!
The essay itself is here: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html https://www.readings.com.au/products/1597628/in-praise-of-idleness-and-other-essays
2. Bullshit Jobs by @davidgraeber.
If you've ever had the feeling your job is pointless, it's probably because it is! You're not the only one. Now might be the time to do something about that. https://www.readings.com.au/products/26189876/bullshit-jobs-the-rise-of-pointless-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
If you've ever had the feeling your job is pointless, it's probably because it is! You're not the only one. Now might be the time to do something about that. https://www.readings.com.au/products/26189876/bullshit-jobs-the-rise-of-pointless-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
3. How To Be Idle, by Tom Hodgkinson ( @idler).
"An antidote to our work-obsessed culture"
We're in this for at least six months, so why not read up on how to live well by doing nothing?
https://www.booktopia.com.au/how-to-be-idle-tom-hodgkinson/book/9780060779696.html
(See also How To Be Free by the same author)
"An antidote to our work-obsessed culture"
We're in this for at least six months, so why not read up on how to live well by doing nothing?
https://www.booktopia.com.au/how-to-be-idle-tom-hodgkinson/book/9780060779696.html
(See also How To Be Free by the same author)
4. Escape Everything by @rubberwringham
A step by step guide to taking control of your destiny and escaping from work, consumerism and despair. And it's funny, too.
http://newescapologist.co.uk/shop/
A step by step guide to taking control of your destiny and escaping from work, consumerism and despair. And it's funny, too.
http://newescapologist.co.uk/shop/
5. The Death of Homo Economicus by Peter Fleming
"A sharp analysis of the nature of work under late capitalism, revealing the dark side of aspiration and utility"
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399409/the-death-of-homo-economicus/
(I'm yet to read Fleming's The Mythology Of Work, but that looks good too)
"A sharp analysis of the nature of work under late capitalism, revealing the dark side of aspiration and utility"
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399409/the-death-of-homo-economicus/
(I'm yet to read Fleming's The Mythology Of Work, but that looks good too)
