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Are you defined by the success you find at work?
The phenomenon of quiet quitting shows that many people are not too invested in their jobs. The writer is grateful for his.
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Over the past few years, postings on social media suggest the hard-driving and high-achieving attitude seems to be undergoing a change.
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A short while ago, I was the recipient of a “lifetime achievement award” from the healthcare group that I worked in, and it was meant to recognise a corpus of successful things that I had done in my professional career.
The award also came with a weighty crystal trophy. Hefting it in my hand, I thought – somewhat grandiosely perhaps – of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, of the once-great, ancient Egyptian pharaoh whose monumental statue had been reduced by the passage of time to a crumbling heap, with its visible inscription ironically proclaiming his greatness as the “King of Kings”.
