Irish writer Megan Nolan reflects on her evolving understanding of work and its significance, particularly as she navigates her late 30s and observes the changing life paths of her friends.
Megan Nolan: A conversation with a man in his late 30s made clear the realities of this new era in my dating life.\Irish writer Megan Nolan: 'For women who don’t have or want children, it is often expected culturally that you take that effort and pride, and direct it to your work.
' Photograph: Sophie Davidson/PARecently, a meme was sent around various friends’ groups that said: “If your job can’t be illustrated by an animal wearing a hat in a children’s book, it’s not a real job,” along with a whimsical drawing of a pig farmer, a sheep baker, a construction worker dog and so on. We were showing this to each other to acknowledge that, by and large, we have jobs that are not easily communicable, whose dubious use cannot be simply conveyed. They are jobs that sound frivolous to our parents and, in our deepest hearts, to ourselves; or which have needlessly convoluted titles, making it impossible for most people to parse their meaning, or which involve much co-ordinating of communications and very little material action (these we dismissively call “email jobs” and as the media continues to disintegrate and devalue its workers, many of those of us who write are desperate to return to the comparative peace of the email jobs we happily shed in our early 20s in search of creative fulfilment).already, only weeks before having had a dream in which I was watching a horror film where a villain trapped hordes of people in a mansion and began to pick them off according to how useless and fanciful their jobs were; the plumber lives, the senior director of search engine optimisation dies. Work – the value of my own, the meaning of work in one’s life generally – is something I have been contemplating more and more as I enter my mid-30s and lines are becoming more concretely drawn about what sort of lives my friends and I are leading. The babies are coming, most notabl
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