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J.J. Gould is deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com. He has previously worked as an editor with McKinsey & Company's New York-based Knowledge Group, where he focused on global public- and social-sector development, the economics of carbon-emissions reduction, and issues in the media industry; an editor at the Journal of Democracy, co-published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and the National Endowment for Democracy; and a lecturer in history and politics at Yale University. He has written for The Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, The Moscow Times, The European Journal of Political Theory, and other publications; he also co-wrote and co-produced the independent film The Chinese Room. Gould has a B.A. in history from McGill University in Montreal, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in in politics from Yale. Originally from Nova Scotia, he lives with his family outside Washington, D.C.
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'You and Your Work': Motivational Thoughts From 1948

By J.J. Gould

Feb 7 2011, 2:32 PM ET Comment

From the once-indispensable Coronet Instructional Films: A high-school guidance counselor offers words of wisdom for a long-lost economy ...

Three years into the post-WW2 era of consensus and fresh out of high school, Frank Taylor hated his job selling shoes: "It was just 'put shoes away,' day after day. ... Nothing ever broke the routine. All I did was put shoes away." But after receiving what was apparently sound advice at the time, Frank comes to realize that whether you're an airplane pilot, architect, or shoe salesman, long-term job satisfaction is all about attitude.



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