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The Case For Working With Your Hands Summary

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Currently, passion is one of basic factor for choosing the right jobs. If we don’t have passion for our career, we will waste our time, and destroy our future. According to “The Case for Working with Your Hands” by Matthew B. Crawford, he mentions, “Seeing a motorcycle about to leave my shop under its own power, several days after arriving in the back of a pickup truck, I don’t feel tired even though I have been standing on a concrete floor all day” (371). This essay discusses about the life of Crawford who had a Ph.D. in political philosophy, he worked at a think tank; nevertheless, he gave up this job to open a motorcycle repair shop. Obviously, he can choose to become a philosopher who is intellectual worker, so why he still accepts to work

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