Loved this piece; I work in climate policy so definitely see some of this at play. For 'purpose' jobs, I think, resisting the pull to work endless hours is as much about keeping ourselves able to sustainably do the work (which both makes the world a better place - we hope - and puts food on the table) as it is about leaving space in life for other sources of fulfilment.
Loved this piece; I work in climate policy so definitely see some of this at play. For 'purpose' jobs, I think, resisting the pull to work endless hours is as much about keeping ourselves able to sustainably do the work (which both makes the world a better place - we hope - and puts food on the table) as it is about leaving space in life for other sources of fulfilment.
This is SO true and why I find the crappy organizational ethos at so many profit jobs so enmaddening — do you want to get work done or do you want to burn out your workforce so you have constant churn and little institutional knowledge? But to do that you really need strong guardrails throughout the org and so few places have them.
Totally! I have a strict rule that I don’t read climate books or watch climate documentaries etc at weekends. But I know most of my colleagues don’t (although most of them don’t live alone so they have distractions in situ, which I don’t!)
Thanks for saying this. I'm still settling into a relatively new job at a Big Green, and I know I can't be the only person who deals with climate anxiety and grief. But we don't talk about it! And then, when we're polled about how well we feel we can separate from work, many people say "I cannot" - hmm I wonder why... What if we made space for processing these complex feelings on the clock, which affect the decisions we make on the clock, so that we can both do our jobs better and function more effectively when not working?
I’m always working on this! Looking at including something about wellbeing for sustainability people in our next team away day. In my own little part of the team we make space for anger and frustration too, because it is important to do that!
I’ve kind of *made us* talk about climate anxiety and grief because I know it’s important.
Loved this piece; I work in climate policy so definitely see some of this at play. For 'purpose' jobs, I think, resisting the pull to work endless hours is as much about keeping ourselves able to sustainably do the work (which both makes the world a better place - we hope - and puts food on the table) as it is about leaving space in life for other sources of fulfilment.
This is SO true and why I find the crappy organizational ethos at so many profit jobs so enmaddening — do you want to get work done or do you want to burn out your workforce so you have constant churn and little institutional knowledge? But to do that you really need strong guardrails throughout the org and so few places have them.
Totally! I have a strict rule that I don’t read climate books or watch climate documentaries etc at weekends. But I know most of my colleagues don’t (although most of them don’t live alone so they have distractions in situ, which I don’t!)
Thanks for saying this. I'm still settling into a relatively new job at a Big Green, and I know I can't be the only person who deals with climate anxiety and grief. But we don't talk about it! And then, when we're polled about how well we feel we can separate from work, many people say "I cannot" - hmm I wonder why... What if we made space for processing these complex feelings on the clock, which affect the decisions we make on the clock, so that we can both do our jobs better and function more effectively when not working?
I’m always working on this! Looking at including something about wellbeing for sustainability people in our next team away day. In my own little part of the team we make space for anger and frustration too, because it is important to do that!
I’ve kind of *made us* talk about climate anxiety and grief because I know it’s important.