Field guide 01 · Compass
The Working Life
How to Build a Career Without Losing Yourself
The Working Life is a practical guide to defining what work is for, making deliberate career moves, and protecting the life work is meant to support. Using the Working Life Field Method, readers build a whole-career operating system grounded in evidence, chosen trade-offs, portable leverage, and sustainable boundaries.
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Twelve chapters.
Four movements.
- 01What Work Is For
- 02Read Your Actual Terrain
- 03Track the Real Cost
- 04Define Enough
- 05Separate Ambition from Identity
- 06Choose Your Trade-Offs
- 07Design Your Next Position
- 08Look Behind the Title
- 09Build Leverage That Travels
- 10Set Terms for Sustainable Work
- 11Protect the Life Outside Work
- 12Run Your Career as a Practice