Dr. Corinne Low

I know.

You're only talking to me because of my job.

So why would that be the solution?

But what I advocate is to think of your job as a technology to convert your time into money.

I advocate for people to think about their job a little bit more dispassionately, especially in those squeeze years.

Because I think there's a tendency or a temptation to be like, I have to get fulfillment through my job, especially as women.

Because that's like, we've been programmed, that's feminism, is me being self-actualized through my job.

And I kind of think that that's a little bit of like a trick of capitalism because it's like when you think about lean in, I say that lean in sounds like it was written by your boss.

And it's like, yes, Sheryl Sandberg is saying lean in because Sheryl Sandberg was the CEO of Facebook.

Like she is literally your boss and her objective function is for the employees to lean in to work, right?

Right.

But there might be periods in your life where you say these investments at work are not serving me.

So it's not the leave your jobs.

It's just think about your job transactionally and make sure that you're really getting a return in terms of what you need from what you're putting in.

And so it might be that these periods, the chapter of your life, because I say think about your career as a book with many chapters, and the chapter of your life where you're

your parents are old and your kids are young, might be the chapter where you can't be the world's best mentor at work, right?

Or you can't be the world's best volunteer.

And that doesn't mean that's not something you value.

And it doesn't mean that you might not do that later.

But it means you might not have room for it right now.