What I learned from this book : it's okay to not love my job. I should try expending less mental energy on this - love people, not work. This was a fascinating overview of ways in which people fight to have their work valued as work, as well as the dangers of conflating the necessity of having to work with "loving" the work you do. Emotional burnout is a thing, and if the pandemic taught me anything it's that there are truly no "essential" workers, only essential jobs.