Jennifer Tosti-Kharas

The flip side of this is they can be extremely critical

of those around them, whether it's the organization, leaders, coworkers, have a view that differs from their own.

But in terms of actually performing the work, they can be quite tough to work with.

They can have

strained work relationships.

They will be the first to sign up if someone needs to work extra hours, but also the first to complain if a decision is made that they don't agree with.

Because again, it runs counter to my calling.

So to have this lofty ideal of what the perfect job is going to feel like is just as sort of unrealistic an assumption

as thinking when I find my perfect life partner, every day will be roses and sunshine and we'll never quarrel and nothing will ever feel hard again.

These are myths.

Yeah, that is a perfect parallel.

So first, I think someone should do that study about exactly how do people feel about the expectation of the calling versus the reality.

I want to see that type of study.

But I also think that's right, because we know that there are

So many jobs that need doing that are unlikely to feel like people's callings.

And so where does that leave people who are left out of this ability to, you know, choose work freely, work in areas that have a reasonable enough degree of autonomy that there's something that they can tap into?

I think that phenomenon will absolutely play out in a very similar way.

Yeah.

So what I like to say is,

If absolutely people should not be doing work that feels meaningless, that is drudgery and that you believe is not just not making the world a better place, but might actually be making the world a worse place.