Work is burden, practice, and story. From Sisyphus’ endless boulder to the repetition of music practice, I explore how effort can either drain us or carry us forward. In the end, work is not only what we do, but the meaning we give it — the place where effort meets transformation.

A job is more than tasks and titles — it’s often the way society measures who we are. Here I look at jobs I held, from the mundane to the meaningful, and the way they shaped my sense of identity. A job can feel like safety, like prison, or like possibility — and sometimes all three at once.

Money is never just numbers — it’s story, power, and emotion. In this chapter, I reflect on growing up with scarcity, the hidden weight of “enough,” and how money shapes our choices. Beyond survival or ambition, money becomes a mirror for what we value, fear, and long for.

Every journey begins somewhere — sometimes by choice, other times by circumstance. In this first chapter of Beyond the Job, I open with Beginning, a chapter about loss, renewal, and becoming. Losing my corporate job could have felt like failure, but instead it revealed fertile ground for growth, discovery, and a new path.