Finding Purpose in Your Work: How aligning work with personal values can reduce burnout and increase fulfillment

"You spend roughly 90,000 hours of your life at work.

That is more time than you will spend with your children, your partner, your friends.

And yet so many of us — especially men of color navigating workplaces not designed with us in mind — spend those hours simply surviving instead of thriving."

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from working too hard.

But from working without meaning.

For men of color, the cost is even higher. Code-switching daily. Carrying the invisible labor of representation. Being the only one in the room. Being told — through a thousand small signals — that your authentic presence is a liability.

That is a wellness crisis. And it deserves to be named as one.