How to Find Meaning in a Job That Isn’t Your 'True Calling'

Why do so few people find fulfillment in their work? A few years ago I posed this question to Amy Wrzesniewski, a Yale School of Management professor who studies these issues, and she offered an explanation that made a lot of sense. Students, she told me, “think their calling is under a rock, and if they turn over enough rocks, they will find it.”

"How to Find Meaning in a Job That Isn’t Your 'True Calling'" is from hbr.org, published on August 3, 2017.