It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.

How do you find not just a salary, but meaning at work?

Have you ever had a job that was just completely pointless?

What kinds of jobs were they?

Managerial supervisory sort of jobs.

Middle management jobs.

To supervise people who don't need supervision.

All they kept saying was, we're really proud to work at a company that's owned by a black woman.

Sorry, I just got teary.

They're finding meaning in you.

I'm Anne Strange Champs, and it is not easy in America today to find work that matters and that pays enough to live on.

The Victorian era, people repressed sex, and then people repressed death, and now they repress money.

So this hour, let's talk about it.

What's wrong with work and how to fix it?

It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs.

What does your job say about you?

In an issue of Harper's magazine, Arthur Miller in an article on playwriting,

I wrote, I do not believe you could tell about a man without telling about the world in which he lives in what he does for a living.

Not only what he was like at home, but on the job.

In the 1960s, journalist Studs Terkel spent years crisscrossing the country, talking with

people about their working lives.

Now, so many of us would not like to need the jobs we have, but we must get down to fundamentals.

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