Work can be a route to creativity excitement & purpose Nevertheless many of us end up confused discouraged & beaten by our working lives The temptation is often just to blame ourselves & to feel privately ashamed & guilty However as this book lucidly explains there is a range of well-embedded & intriguing reasons why work proves demoralising including the evolution of modern work the role of technology & the mechanics of the economy This surprisingly cheering book offers us an invigorating perspective over our working lives
- & what we might do at times when our work challenges us almost unbearably