If your work is deeply meaningful to you, you may end up prioritising it over other aspects of your life, says King's College London's Andreana Drencheva.
If your work is deeply meaningful to you, you may end up prioritising it over other aspects of your life, says King's College London's Andreana Drencheva.
People who derive a strong sense of meaningfulness from their work may over-identify with their professional roles. This means that their work becomes their primary, and sometimes only, source of self-definition and self-worth: They see their identity only as someone who does that job, and that their value comes only from work.. If this is the case for you, you may find that work consumes a significant portion of your time, attention and energy.
Organisations may knowingly or unknowingly exploit the dedication of people who experience their work as meaningful. Your employer might take advantage of your commitment by expecting you to work long hours, take on additional responsibilities or accept lower pay compared to market standards. Meaningful work can be used as an excuse for strategic decisions from companies to invest inadequately in people and working conditions.
It might also make changing jobs difficult. You might put off leaving a role or organisation, or find the very prospect of changing jobs emotionally daunting. If you get a strong sense of purpose and identity from your work, it can be challenging to envisage yourself in a different context. But this could mean missing out on career and pay opportunities elsewhere.
For example, a sustainability consultant may find that the only measures a client is willing to work with them on are greenwashing campaigns to make the company look better. Accepting this contract pits the consultant’s dedication to sustainability against the realities of working in a commercial setting.
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