Alain de Botton Explores Work and Why We Do It
Even Alain de Botton, best-selling author and philosopher of work, has his moments of doubt about his job. “To be a modern human being means never being far from having a career crisis,” he joked with the crowd at the Getty Museum. “For me, Sunday evening is the favored time for this privileged state. Just as the sun is going down and the gap between what is and what might have been grows.” De Botton, most recently the author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, explored not only why …
