Discover why treating your job as purely transactional—not your identity—might be the secret to having energy left for a richer life outside the office.

샌프란시스코에서 컬럼비아 대학교 동문들이 만들었습니다
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**Lena:** You know what's wild, Miles? I was just reading about this journalist who realized he wasn't choosing between two jobs—he was choosing between two versions of himself. And that hit me right in the gut because I think so many of us have been there.
**Miles:** Oh absolutely. That's Simone Stolzoff, and what he discovered is something most people never even realize they're doing. We've basically turned our jobs into our identities, our source of meaning, our everything. He calls it "workism"—treating work like a religion.
**Lena:** Right! And here's what's fascinating—he found that some of the happiest workers he interviewed were the ones who saw their jobs as purely transactional. Just an exchange of time for money, nothing more.
**Miles:** Exactly. They clocked in, did their work, clocked out, and then had energy left over to actually be themselves outside the office. It's like they had this secret that the rest of us are missing.
**Lena:** I mean, it makes sense when you think about it. If you're not pouring your entire soul into your job, you actually have some soul left for everything else. So let's explore what it really means to do "enough" at work and why that might be the key to a richer life.