What Makes a Good Job, part 3, featuring Simone Stolzoff

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the final installment of our Good Jobs series, Jessi meets with journalist Simone Stolzoff, author of the new book, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life From Work. Simone, who goes by Simo, wants to flip the script on good jobs entirely. Instead of putting all our energy into work and shoehorning our life into the margins, he says our work lives should give us plenty of time to look for meaning outside of our jobs. The conversation between Simo and Jessi explores the decline of community organizations and the increasing reliance on the workplace for meaning and belonging. Simo pushes back on various workplace myths and encourages listeners to critically assess these beliefs and find the intersection between their personal values and market values. The episode concludes with actionable insights on how to reframe work's role in our lives, including creating boundaries to prioritize non-work activities and cultivating sources of identity and meaning outside of the job. We also hear from a beloved Hello Monday community member, who shares what she’s learned about good jobs. Follow Simone Stolzoff on LinkedIn, and check out his new book. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. You can also help Jessi spread visibility this Pride by requesting or sponsoring a copy of her book. Gift it forward here. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn's Talent Connect Show is the event for talent teams to dive into the most pressing
0:05.5	challenges facing the industry. Join this global broadcast event on October 3rd and 4th.
0:10.9	Register today at LinkedIn TalentConnect.com-slashpodcast.
0:18.4	LinkedIn News
0:24.8	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:30.0	This is the final episode in our special series on what makes a good job.
0:39.2	Now what we're really getting at with this series is of course something larger.
0:43.7	What I'm interested in is where does life's meaning come from?
0:47.3	And is a good job one that provides that meaning?
0:50.2	Or is a good job the kind of thing that allows me the time, the resources, and the security
0:55.5	to seek that meaning on my own?
0:57.2	Together, we have looked in the last few weeks at how we search for work and how we make sense of our
1:04.7	opportunities. We've looked at what happens when businesses focus on supporting their employees,
1:10.4	rather than offering them a mission of sorts.
1:14.7	Today, we're going to hear from an author who wants us to just get out of the office whenever possible.
1:20.8	Simone Stolzoff is the author of The Good Enough Job, reclaiming life from work.
1:28.0	Simone wants to flip the script on good jobs entirely.
1:32.1	Instead of putting all our energy into work and shoe-horning our life into the margins,
1:37.2	he says our work-life should give us plenty of time to look for meaning outside of our jobs.
1:43.2	He's hopeful that his new book will enable us to be intentional about our vision for what a well-lived
1:48.0	life looks like. A Simone and I began talking. I pointed out what I shared with all of you at the
1:55.3	very beginning of our series, that I'd grown up believing that I should love what I do,
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