Quiz: Does Your Work Matter to You?


	Quiz: Does Your Work Matter to You?

Communicator

5-26-2009 7:11 AM

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"I decided to leave my full-time publishing job last fall, in part to rediscover teaching. As I wrestled with the decision, I obviously had to ask myself many questions, ranging from the practical to the existential. A large subset of the questions had to do with the greater impact of my work and the effect that my awareness of that impact was having on me.

I share those questions with you here, in the form of a quiz. "

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