“Be careful what you get good at doin’ ’cause you’ll be doin’ it for the rest of your life.”
Jo Carson
more infosource: quoted by Gabrielle Hamilton, in Blood, Bones & Butter (New York: Random House, 2011), 91.
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category: advice, profession, school of life, work
medium: Memoir
“A traveler is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from — toward — ; it is the history of every one of us.”
Henry David Thoreau
more infosource: Diary entry dated July 2, 1851, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Vol 6 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884), 276.
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category: history, profession, travel
medium: diary
“When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (New York: Pantheon, 2009), 78.
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category: delight, job, meaning, profession, satisfaction, suffering, work
medium: nonfiction
profession