Resist the pressure to ‘do what you love’ and look at work this way

“Chasing work as a calling all too often ends unhappily.”

Christopher Wong Michaelson is a philosopher with 25 years of experience advising business leaders pursuing meaning and providing work with a purpose. He is the Opus Distinguished professor and academic director of the Melrose and The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership at the University of St. Thomas. He is on the Business and Society faculty at NYU’s Stern School of Business.