looking for professional fulfillment

“In a company, there is a man who has worked here for 25 years and another for 2 years at full speed and who in two years is going to go around the world with his girlfriend: what we can notice is that in the first case, work is an end, in the second case, work is a means to flourish in existence. But who gives the most meaning to his work? It’s not the first, paradoxically, it’s the second”. Julia de Funès, doctor of philosophy, explains, through this example, that considering work as having a meaning as such is a “nonsense“.

Work, a way to flourish

For Julia de Funès, work can no longer be thought of as a moral value as such because moral value is wanting the thing for itself. Work is rather a means, at the service of the existence that we relocate to flourish and enrich ourselves in the professional context. “The purpose of life is really life and not at all work. And so that is very good news.”, adds Julia de Funès.

The doctor of philosophy also raises a phenomenon: the search for meaning in certain intellectual professions. “Many people leave everything, even though they have very good jobs, good training, good salaries, and most of the time, it’s always for the same thing: either a manual job or a relational job, that is to say where there is concrete material and where we immediately see the meaning, the purpose, in a concrete and tangible way, of what we are undertaking”, she underlines. Julia de Funès observes in work and more generally in our daily lives, a liberation of all spheres of our society. “There is a strong movement of individualization, of empowerment and against which it is futile, in my opinion, to fight”.