Practice Economic Disobedience in Your Job Search

Peter Weddle

What would you do if you were approached by a secret online group of workplace activists who said vulture capitalists had rigged the job market against you?  And, how would you react if they also told you that the only way to protect yourself was to practice “economic disobedience?”

Those are the questions explored in my new book A Multitude of Hope: A Novel About Rediscovering the American Dream.  It’s the story of three out-of-work Baby Boomers trying to make sense of today’s demeaning and demoralizing world of work.

What’s “economic disobedience?”  It’s the practice of refusing to accept the boxes employers try to put us in.  These boxes limit our sense of possibility – our hope for the present and the future – and, as a result, they undermine our ability to achieve success. Continue Reading