The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

I really wanted this to be a framework or guide post for setting out what you want in a “good enough job”, a work of philosophy maybe. (I read it because Oliver Burkeman recommended it and I really liked Four Thousand Weeks.) But it was more a work of journalism examining some different aspects of our relationship to work through the stories of individual workers, with a few broader statistics thrown in. It was fine for what it was but very little of the book contained new ideas for me and the authors conclusion is kind of just “a lot of our problems with work are institutional and societal, but you probably should just find your own middle ground between caring about your job and building a life outside it”.

As a fellow librarian, chapter 3 really stuck out to me. This was a great, quick read. Would recommend to anyone who is interested in evaluating their relationship to their work.