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Why Do We Do What We Do?
The question that justifies our purpose in life
“Keep doing what you do, Mike.” — Mithell Garabedian, Spotlight
Spotlight is a 2015 drama/history movie that earned itself the most prestigious awards at the Oscar 2016, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It captured an actual event about a team of investigative journalists who worked for The Boston Globe that was covering a story about child-abuse cases by priests in Boston. The story managed to uncover hundreds of more victim stories who reached out after the story was published.
I couldn’t help but think after watching the movie,
Is that what we’re supposed to do with our lives? Doing something that’s actually important? or matters?
Needless to say, I’m no better.
I started my career at the age of 20 with one of the most common jobs of all in the 21st century; working for a startup company in the marketing department. I wasn’t a software engineer or a product manager, but it was still common enough among the fresh graduates of my graduation year.
I spent at least one-third of a day at work every day which was not a small amount of time. A regular job requires at least 40 hours/week on average. That would account for 36% of my time in a week minus the average…
