Hello Monday

- [Jessie] We spend a lot of time at work. The average person will put in 90,000 hours. That's about half the time you're awake for 50 years of your life and for me, that's a lot of time to be riding the elevator, running late to meetings, and trying to find my way to that mythical place, inbox zero. And every once and a while I stop and ask myself, am I doing this right, this career thing? From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hemple and this is Hello Monday, a show where I investigate how we're changing the nature of work and how that work is changing us. I've spent the past 16 years writing about tech at places like Business Week, Fortune, Wired, and now here at LinkedIn, but it was never the tech that interested me. I've always been drawn to tech because of how it changes people, the way that we live and work. Like when I started reporting in 2003, I carried a business card with my desk phone number. Today, I can't even remember what my desk number is. Today's job market looks so different than the one that my college prepared me for back in the late 90's, and that change hardly feels dramatic compared to what's coming, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, augmented reality. It leaves me with a central question. What can we be doing right now to make sure we still have jobs tomorrow and that they're good jobs, jobs we feel good about? Each week I'll bring you reporting and interviews from people like Late Night host Seth Meyers. - [Seth] I wanted to show people I could another thing, that I wasn't just the update guy. - [Jessie] "Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert. - [Elizabeth] Nobody owes you anything. You know, your obligation is to the creative process that you love. It's on you. - [Jessie] And Olympic medal winning soccer player, Abby Wambach. - [Abby] Those were the kind of leadership lessons that I had yet to learn. If you're not a leader on the bench, then you can't call yourself a leader on the field. - [Jessie] And in the process, we'll learn something new about how to make a career work. So join me, pour your coffee, don't forget your keys, and let's start the week. Hello Monday. Find us on Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen. (gentle music)