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Why family expectations can undermine your sense of purpose

My Jewish mother keeps asking when I am going to 'do something meaningful' with my life and I work sixty hours a week at a nonprofit fighting food insecurity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You are struggling to validate your own understanding of what constitutes meaningful work against inherited definitions of success.

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