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I had my two kids and all of that and then had this kind of panic. It’s paradoxical because you think that something repetitive will make time last longer, feel longer. And I changed jobs the first time and became a teacher and I was a teacher for eight years and… liked my job but then found another form of alienation, which was its repetitiveness and dealing with the idea of doing the same thing over and over and over again with all those yearly rituals, beginning of the school year, end of the school year, the exams, and these very repetitive rituals have this paradoxical effect of giving you the impression that time flies. I used to work for a company, a computer services company, and I was extremely miserable and it was really not only labour, but complete alienation. And the second reason was that, on a personal level, I hadn’t solved the question of how can you be happy at work? How can you find a place that fits, that makes sense to you and possibly others too? So how do you find meaning and revenues at the same time? So intellectually speaking, it’s just the perfect subject. The reason why I picked this subject was that I realized that it was a large enough subject for me to be able to write about history, sociology, economics, psychology and all the other subjects that I’m interested in because it deals with all these things.

Yes I started writing about work because I was unhappy at work. Laetitia Vitaud (LV): Thank you for inviting me first. So could you maybe just tell us how you arrived at this point and what motivated you to write this book? I think the place to start with this book, Laetitia is very much the product of your own personal journey.

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And it deals with the shift in employment from paid full time work to a world which is made up much more of craftsmanship and freelancing.

Laetitia is here in Geneva… she’s in town because she’s promoting her new book, which is called Du Labeur à l’ouvrage.

She’s also Editor in Chief of Welcome to the Jungle, which is a platform for recruiters. And for this episode we are with Laetitia Vitaud, who is a renowned speaker and writer on the Future of Work.

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This episode is part of our series on the Future of Work, which is brought to you in collaboration with Trezeo, a financial services platform for self-employed workers.

Reinventing Organizations, by Frederic Lalouxīen Robinson (BR): Welcome to the Aperture Podcast.

Du Labeur à l’Ouvrage, by Laetitia Vitaud.

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