Buku

Tanpa kata-kata, tanpa tulisan, dan tanpa buku tidak akan ada sejarah, tidak akan ada konsep kemanusiaan.—Herhman Hesse

What to Read When You Want to Quit

Even if you like what you do for a living most days, actually working can be tough. In pursuit of hazy notions of success, many of us spend the prime of our lives jumping through hoops that other people tell us to jump through, or toiling toward a promotion we’re not at all sure is coming. Frequently, labor is less a source of purpose and more a necessity that allows one to pay the bills. And today, many people feel that its demands—mental, emotional, physical—are so great that they are too exhausted to do anything genuinely enjoyable at the end of the day.Other than, perhaps, dream about quitting. However, this dissatisfaction can also raise important questions. What exactly do we get from our paid employment, and are there other ways we could spend our time? What work should society value?Even if you like what you do for a living most days, actually working can be tough. In pursuit of hazy notions of success, many of us spend the prime of our lives jumping through hoops that other people tell us to jump through, or toiling toward a promotion we’re not at all sure is coming. Frequently, labor is less a source of purpose and more a necessity that allows one to pay the bills. And today, many people feel that its demands—mental, emotional, physical—are so great that they are too exhausted to do anything genuinely enjoyable at the end of the day. Other than, perhaps, dream about quitting. However, this dissatisfaction can also raise important questions. What exactly do we get from our paid employment, and are there other ways we could spend our time? What work should society value? Even if you like what you do for a living most days, actually working can be tough. In pursuit of hazy notions of success, many of us spend the prime of our lives jumping through hoops that other people tell us to jump through, or toiling toward a promotion we’re not at all sure is coming. Frequently, labor is less a source of purpose and more a necessity that allows one to pay the bills. And today, many people feel that its demands—mental, emotional, physical—are so great that they are too exhausted to do anything genuinely enjoyable at the end of the day. Other than, perhaps, dream about quitting. However, this dissatisfaction can also raise important questions. What exactly do we get from our paid employment, and are there other ways we could spend our time? What work should society value? Even if you like what you do for a living most days, actually working can be tough. In pursuit of hazy notions of success, many of us spend the prime of our lives jumping through hoops that other people tell us to jump through, or toiling toward a promotion we’re not at all sure is coming. Frequently, labor is less a source of purpose and more a necessity that allows one to pay the bills. And today, many people feel that its demands—mental, emotional, physical—are so great that they are too exhausted to do anything genuinely enjoyable at the end of the day. Other than, perhaps, dream about quitting. However, this dissatisfaction can also raise important questions. What exactly do we get from our paid employment, and are there other ways we could spend our time? What work should society value?Even if you like what you do for a living most days, actually working can be tough. In pursuit of hazy notions of success, many of us spend the prime of our lives jumping through hoops that other people tell us to jump through, or toiling toward a promotion we’re not at all sure is coming. Frequently, labor is less a source of purpose and more a necessity that allows one to pay the bills. And today, many people feel that its demands—mental, emotional, physical—are so great that they are too exhausted to do anything genuinely enjoyable at the end of the day. Other than, perhaps, dream about quitting. However, this dissatisfaction can also raise important questions. What exactly do we get from our paid employment, and are there other ways we could spend our time? What work should society value?

The Secret Desire Many Workers Share

Join The Atlantic’s staff writer James Parker and its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, for a discussion about Parker’s new book, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive. The conversation will take place at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, in Washington, D.C., 610 Water Street SW, on August 12 at 7 p.m. How good must it feel to march up to a truly terrible boss and unload every frustration you have with your job? I’ve never done it, and I don’t actually want to—I have a pretty nice gig right now. But the intense, vindictive impulse to tell off an incompetent manager, or lose your cool with an infuriating co-worker, or simply say no to someone who’s telling you what to do is, I think, a secretly cherished fantasy of basically anyone who works for a living. This week, Chelsea Leu assembled a list of books to read when you’re ready to toss your uniform to the ground and walk out of your shift. Join The Atlantic’s staff writer James Parker and its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, for a discussion about Parker’s new book, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive. The conversation will take place at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, in Washington, D.C., 610 Water Street SW, on August 12 at 7 p.m How good must it feel to march up to a truly terrible boss and unload every frustration you have with your job? I’ve never done it, and I don’t actually want to—I have a pretty nice gig right now. But the intense, vindictive impulse to tell off an incompetent manager, or lose your cool with an infuriating co-worker, or simply say no to someone who’s telling you what to do is, I think, a secretly cherished fantasy of basically anyone who works for a living. This week, Chelsea Leu assembled a list of books to read when you’re ready to toss your uniform to the ground and walk out of your shift. Join The Atlantic’s staff writer James Parker and its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, for a discussion about Parker’s new book, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive. The conversation will take place at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, in Washington, D.C., 610 Water Street SW, on August 12 at 7 p.m. How good must it feel to march up to a truly terrible boss and unload every frustration you have with your job? I’ve never done it, and I don’t actually want to—I have a pretty nice gig right now. But the intense, vindictive impulse to tell off an incompetent manager, or lose your cool with an infuriating co-worker, or simply say no to someone who’s telling you what to do is, I think, a secretly cherished fantasy of basically anyone who works for a living. This week, Chelsea Leu assembled a list of books to read when you’re ready to toss your uniform to the ground and walk out of your shift.