“What’s your career goal?” A question we are frequently asked in job interviews, performance reviews, in conversation, even with strangers, and we often ask of ourselves.

That the job has anything to do with what you want is one of history’s biggest and most enduring lies.
We enter our working years with ideas of meaningful endeavour, that it will provide everything for a well-lived life: income, friendships, learning, participation and achievement. None was a factor in the design or evolution of jobs which were, and are still are, designed for the enrichment of the corporation.
Today we are no longer willing to accept that people get what’s left after enterprises have taken their cut. We see it in the push for work that fulfils, is secure and sustainable and offers achievements worth pursuing.
Except, we don’t know how to make this happen. Training and education has taught us how to please our employers, but not the skills to do work for our human purposes.
Add to this the fact that the skills needed for working in the digital era aren’t being adequately taught, and it adds up to people having fewer choices in work or doing work that leaves them feeling lost, stuck, insecure and undervalued.

The Michelangelo Project is the answer to the questions you have about why your work isn’t the purpose-driven, fulfilling experience you dreamed of, and what you can do about it.