Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\nI have been enjoying it.\u00a0 The subtitle is a good summary:\u00a0 “An inquiry into the value of work”<\/p>\n
Mr Crawford sees some serious problems in the erosion of personal agency in corporate culture.<\/p>\n
Up until recently I’ve been able to avoid most of those problems by being a “one man band” at my job.\u00a0 I could talk to my user community, make decisions, take action, and maybe see improvement or not.\u00a0 But here about a year ago I got a new boss who has taken over some of the decision making.\u00a0 Then I got a co-worker, and another new boss between me and my old-new-boss.\u00a0 I’m starting to feel less and less connected to whatever good may be coming out of my work.<\/p>\n
So this book has me wondering how I can capture that feeling of accomplishment again.<\/p>\n
One overlooked part is the need for income, although the author does mention it in a place or two.\u00a0 If I didn’t need the money it would definitely be easier to become a teacher or a welder.\u00a0 I’ve gone too far down this road I’m on, and I don’t know if there is any actual way off until such time as retirement, or near retirement should arrive.\u00a0\u00a0 And I’ve been too lazy to be proactive about it; I could be saving up money to take a leap, but haven’t done that.<\/p>\n
Oh well, I have it easy.\u00a0 I eat too much food too, and my wife is too pretty.\u00a0 So we all have our problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Yesterday: 3.4 miles; none today] I checked out a book at the library:\u00a0 Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford. I have been enjoying it.\u00a0 The subtitle is a good summary:\u00a0 “An inquiry into the value of work” Mr Crawford sees some serious problems in the erosion of personal agency in corporate culture. Up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}