Jobs Don’t Have Dignity, People Do

Craig Axford
3 min readMar 2, 2018
Photo by Caju Gomes on Unsplash

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”~ Hermann Hesse

From a young age we are taught that work imparts dignity. The question ‘what do you do?’ is instantly understood to refer to our job: what someone pays us to do as opposed to the thing(s) done…

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Craig Axford

M.A. in Environment and Management and undergraduate degrees in Anthropology & Environmental Studies. Living in Moab, Utah. A generalist, not a specialist.