Jodi Kantor

It is generational.

So in throwing me that, I had this moment of like, oh my God, that is a great question.

That is a hard question.

That is a worthy question.

They really need help with that question.

And it also called to me because I had covered the workplace for so long.

I have been teaching for 20 years.

I teach both graduate and undergraduate students.

And that is the number one question that they are all facing.

How do we create a life?

How do we make a life?

in an AI-driven world that's also now involved in hiring, collapsing job pathways, a loss of faith in institutions.

And also, how do you maintain a sense of aspiration about work, which is important individually?

Like, you and I are people who love work.

We've, like,

gotten so much satisfaction, you know, day-to-day happiness out of work over the years.

But the stakes are collective.

I mean, work is how society moves forward.

Like, this is our engine of progress.

And so, I mean, a lot of students, as you say, are just concerned about, like, stability and survival.