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In our studies we have often encountered a strange inner conflict in the way people relate to the way they make their living. What is work like for average American adults today? Ancient Chinese cooks, Alpine farmers, surgeons, and welders help illuminate the potential inherent in work, but they are not, after all, very typical of the kind of job most people do nowadays. But eventually we have to look more closely at what is happening here and now. It is easier to understand the way work affects the quality of life when we take the long view, and compare ourselves with people from different times and cultures.