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The Pleasures & Sorrows of Work (First Year Read, 2022)

A guide to the 2022 First Year Read Program pick, The Pleasures & Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton (2009).

work work.....Our choice of occupation is held to define our identity to the extent that the most insistent question we ask of new acquaintances is not where they come from or who their parents were but what they do, the assumption being that the route to a meaningful existence must invariably pass through the gate of remunerative employment (2009, p. 106).

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