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According to demographic labeling, Phil Mollenkof fits the young professional bill. His college degree—Communications and Media—ranks in the top ten most common Bachelor degrees among young professionals today, nearly twice as popular as all other academic concentrations. With his fair share of plaid shirts, Phil works and lives in the city, a preferred...

There are temples all over this place. The dining room table, the kitchen sink, underneath the pear tree, the halls I walk at the hospital where I work…no tall arches or stained glass, no austere organ music or deep mahogany.  Just these hands, this body, these people I weave in and out of every day. I remind myself of this each day—each ordinary day:...

My question stumped Susan, a diligent job seeker, over coffee that morning:  “What do you care about that’s larger than you?” “Gosh, I’m going to have to think about that,” she said.  I don’t know.” Susan isn’t alone.  A lot of people know in their hearts they are supposed to be doing something larger than themselves, something special, and something...

Where, exactly, do you work? I work from home. I occasionally have meetings at clients’ offices. But I often pack up my laptop and head for a local coffee shop to work. One Chicago Tribune article referred to people like me, who take over a table with a laptop and slowly nurse one Venti latte for three hours, as “laptop sqatters.” Nice, right? You may...