Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

Joanna Russ
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Without meaningful work you might as well be dead. The ability to have a job that provides a feeling of satisfaction and purpose is so important to being happy. If you have a job that you hate, there is no way you will be able to find happiness. A job that helps people or benefits society is a great kind of job, but a job that helps the boss makes the person doing the work feel worthless. The only reason why most people don’t become completely miserable in their jobs is because they have meaningful work.

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