Let’s look across a career to ask whether meaningless work is a personal problem or a feature of the economy.

In this episode you’ll find out:

• why I quit my job and walked away from everything
• what each step up the career ladder actually revealed
• the unnerving answer keeping our current world in place

The full text, images and references can be found here: https://substack.jjvandevyver.earth/p/what-if-i-cant-find-meaning-in-corporate?

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (02:40) - Journey's end
• (07:35) - Piece 1: What I chose to study
• (11:26) - Piece 2: How I spent my working hours
• (16:53) - Piece 3: Which jobs are deemed valuable
• (20:48) - Quick recap
• (21:39) - Piece 4: How success is measured
• (27:04) - Piece 5: What organisations prioritise
• (35:46) - Piece 6: Where money is invested
• (41:15) - Piece 7: My return on investment
• (46:53) - Putting the pieces together
• (50:56) - A seed of hope
• (54:38) - On the next episode
• (55:10) - Acknowledgements

• Barbara Okhrati for her skilled hand in creating the visuals for the print version of this piece
• Ben and Hunter for the generous feedback on early drafts
• Dan Perez for his audio recordings of gaita music along the Camino de Santiago
• Phillip-Jan van Zyl for his beautiful piano collection “Spiral”
• Leigh and Lesanne for encouraging, supporting and shaping this work
• Louise for guiding my way to inspired creativity
• My partner Ash for your patience and support throughout this project
• The many wonderful humans who inspired these words through our conversations

I'll see you in the wilderness.