Listen now | In this week’s podcast episode, wealth manager and author David Bahnsen joins me to challenge conventional wisdom about work, retirement, and purpose.
Love the new equipment and quality - I was surprised by the claim around 13 minutes in that our culture has an aristocratic notion of work as merely a means to an end. If we thought of it that way, then the Boomers would have done the FIRE thing long ago.
Instead, I think American middle-class culture in general (not youth, or punk, or hippie culture) has a very Puritan work ethic, where just having a job is seen to be very favorable. Every entrepreneur, artist, or creative seems to have stories of how they needed to buck the expectation to just "get a job."
I see a bit of that in the claim that people should work in the office in traditional blue- or white-collar jobs. When work is seen as a life calling, (uniting life and work in just the way Bahnsen suggests) people are going to want to do entrepreneurial, self-employed, or non-profit work, aligned with their own mission. That seems to be what we millennials (and younger) are after. But I enjoyed the discussion!
Love the new equipment and quality - I was surprised by the claim around 13 minutes in that our culture has an aristocratic notion of work as merely a means to an end. If we thought of it that way, then the Boomers would have done the FIRE thing long ago.
Instead, I think American middle-class culture in general (not youth, or punk, or hippie culture) has a very Puritan work ethic, where just having a job is seen to be very favorable. Every entrepreneur, artist, or creative seems to have stories of how they needed to buck the expectation to just "get a job."
I see a bit of that in the claim that people should work in the office in traditional blue- or white-collar jobs. When work is seen as a life calling, (uniting life and work in just the way Bahnsen suggests) people are going to want to do entrepreneurial, self-employed, or non-profit work, aligned with their own mission. That seems to be what we millennials (and younger) are after. But I enjoyed the discussion!