Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.

-James Hillman

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Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were

James Hillman

Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.

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Jobs

Writing

Kids

It's A Terrible Cruelty Of Predatory Capitalism: Both Parents Now Have To Work. A Family Has To Have Two Incomes In Order To Buy The Things That Are Desirable In Our Culture. So The Degradation Of Motherhood - The Sense That Motherhood Isn't Itself A Calling - Also Arises From Economic Pressure.

Motherhood

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