Education, employment, and putting food on the table

Perhaps you’re middle-aged and have a job, profession, or independent business by which you’re making a decent living. Unless you’ve come to hate that career, you’ll likely want to stick with it for the rest of your working life, if possible. But do take some time to think about how it fits into the framework of complexification—and possible decomplexification. How essential is your work, really?

 

 

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The domestic economy and its discontents

(This is a continuation of my discussion of employment in times of decline, which was too long to be treated as a single post.)

 

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