Mostly, I do what I do because it is fun and I get to create stuff. My job lets me combine activities that fascinate me and bring me satisfaction. This includes designing, writing, teaching and a being a student of how people and groups interact and learn.
Mostly, I do what I do because it is fun and I get to create stuff. My job lets me combine activities that fascinate me and bring me satisfaction. This includes designing, writing, teaching and a being a student of how people and groups interact and learn.
As a child I saw my mother come home from her job in a textile factory frustrated and exhausted having not made an unreachable quota on her shift and more than once having run a needle through her finger. My mother was a hard-working, good problem-solver who also helped to run a family farm. However, in the factory she was an appendage to a machine. I’m not really sure when making workplaces more humane became part of the fabric of my work. I know that underutilization and poor treatment of people is not a factory problem alone. Today I see it in schools, nonprofits, banks among other places.
Almost everyone goes to work somewhere. At work there is incentive to learn to work together, value our differences, express our potential and work towards common goals. Maybe if we can learn to do this in our workplaces, it will transfer to the psyche of our neighborhoods, states and nation. I know that you cannot tell people these things, but rather they have to discover them through their own experiences. However, I think we can design experiences that accelerate the learning.