Why We Work

The day classical music mattered

Classical music matters in my household. That’s because my husband, Chris, makes his living in that field, as a professional clarinet player.

Before I met Chris, I could not tell a French horn from a flugel horn, Mendelssohn from Mozart, Menuhin from Midori. Okay, I still can’t (but aren’t you impressed that I can spell them?). Like …

Why Do We Work? One Career Changer’s Answer

Why do we work?

On the face of it, that’s a stupid question. We work to put food on the table and a roof over our heads, of course. We work toward the prospect of children in college and ourselves in rocking chairs. In other words: we work because we have to.

TIME is running a series of stories called Why We Work in which we explore …