Seen a lot of takes lately like “the thing is most people don’t have careers, they have jobs, deriving identity and purpose from your work is a PMC-specific thing”
And it makes me think of Mike Judge’s High Neoliberal Exurban “Republican voters are diverse and nuanced” series King of the Hill, and how central it was to Hank Hill’s identity that he had a workaday job he took as a calling
Like, try to imagine Al Bundy with a quarter of the passion for women’s shoes that Hank has for propane and propane accessories
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