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🗓️ 23 January 2023
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Today’s Deep Question: Why are lumberjacks happier than lawyers? [3:06]
- Should I leave a good job to gain more autonomy? [32:34]
- Should I quit my trainer job? [38:31]
- What does Cal’s workday look like? [45:52]
- How can I create a career without skills? [54:48]
CASE STUDY: The Slow Lawyer [58:38]
Books Cal Read in December [1:05:33]
Links:
- washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/06/happiest-jobs-on-earth/
- frugalwoods.com/2021/09/15/mr-fw-retired-and-we-paid-off-our-mortgage-frugalwoods-fire-is-complete/
- bench.co/blog/small-business-stories/paul-jarvis/
- calnewport.com/blog/2017/05/22/john-grishams-15-hour-workweek/
- itsfreetime.com/about
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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering.
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0:00.0 | I'm CalNewPort and this is DeepQuestions, the show about working and living deeply in |
0:18.0 | an increasingly distracted world. |
0:23.9 | I'm here in my DeepWork HQ, I'm joined by my producer, Jesse. |
0:29.6 | So Jesse, this weekend I was reading my physical copy of the Washington Post because as I often |
0:37.4 | emphasize on this show in my leisure life I strive to be as much as possible like a depression |
0:42.8 | error farmer, reduce papers and listen to the radio and I sit on the porch with a rocking |
0:50.8 | chair holding a pitchfork, maybe not the pitchfork part, but I aspire to be in my leisure |
0:56.4 | life like a depression error farmer. |
0:58.4 | So I'm reading the physical newspaper and I come across an interesting article in the |
1:03.3 | business section of the Washington Post, this is from Sunday, the title is the happiest |
1:07.7 | least stressful jobs on earth. |
1:11.4 | So it looks like here there is new data, new data on how people feel about how happy |
1:17.6 | their job makes them as well as how stressful their life makes them. |
1:22.6 | And I'm looking at this here, this is a beer of labor statistics, they're, we're adding |
1:27.6 | these new questions to their standard American time you survey, so they kind of wanted to |
1:30.6 | understand what jobs make us happy, what jobs make us unhappy, what jobs stress us out, |
1:35.8 | what jobs don't stress us out. |
1:37.9 | I was a little surprised actually by the top choice so that what was the happiest least |
1:44.6 | stressful job from the survey, I was less surprised by the bottom, what was the least |
1:51.4 | happy most stressful job. |
1:53.4 | Let me quiz you Jesse, what do you think the happiest least stressful job in America |
1:59.0 | is according to the survey? |
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