We spend a lot of time at work.

The average person will put in $90,000,

that's about half the time you're awake

for 50 years of your life.

And for me, that's a lot of time to be riding the elevator,

running late to meetings,

and trying to find my way to that mythical place in Box Zero.

And every once in a while, I stop and ask myself,

am I doing this right?

This career thing?

From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel.

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.

I've spent the past 16 years riding about tech

at places like Business Week, Fortune, Wired,

and now here at LinkedIn.

But it was never the tech that interested me.

I've always been drawn to tech because of how it changes people,

the way that we live and work.

Like when I started reporting in 2003,

I carried a business card with my desk phone number.

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