Career anarchy = NOT betraying yourself

One of the biggest bits of pushback I get from friends and family about the concept of career anarchy is that it comes with an element, a flavor, an undertone of violence. 

Are you feeling violent yet?! Because I am.

Capitalist values – profit at all costs, putting it above our humanity, exploitation of workers and labor – it’s all the same value system brought about by colonialism. 

Not following our deepest desires for how we want to spend our time and how we want to be making money in our careers is internalized colonialism. 

The value system that compels us to betray our own intuition, instincts, and desires for how to spend our time – instead overstretching ourselves and going against what it is we actually want to be doing and continuing to show up to work every day, every day, every day as a steady grind – is the same value system keeping people silent and complacent about acts of violence fueled by colonialism in the world.

You burning yourself out is an act of colonialist violence. 

All career anarchy is, is looking at the set menu of options for what we’ve been trained to believe is possible, what we’re allowed to get paid for, what we’re “supposed to” be doing in our career and the definition of success – looking at that menu and just saying “Nah, none of this works for me. I’m going to do something else.”

Literally anything else. Anything that your heart desires. THAT’S career anarchy. 

So you tell me: what’s more violent?