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From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday, a show where

I investigate how we're changing the nature of work and how that work is changing us.

For those of us who went to college, there's this assumption that our profession is more than just a way to pay the bills.

It's the place where we find our sense of purpose.

You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied

is to do what you believe is great work.

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

That's Steve Jobs at his commencement address at Stanford in 2005, but it's

possible that he is steering us in the wrong direction. Maybe that's asking too much

of a career. Maybe your jobs should just be your job.

This idea is having a moment.

Journalists have lately been writing about burnout, about the idea that we have to like our jobs

at all,

and a condition called workism.

Later in this episode, reporter Caroline Fairchild

will dig into this.

But first, I bring you a conversation

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