He refers to two individual jobs he has held, one at a political organization as an executive director, the other as a clerk writing abstracts for academic journals. Working at the political organization, Crawford shares his issues with the corporate mindset, arguing that their mindset required him to think about the past and think about how he wanted things to go in order to plan what steps to take. He also claims that the work was dishonest and that his boss urged him to make arguments that he himself did not agree with (371). His work writing abstracts was similar, however his main concern was that the work lacked real purpose or passion. Crawford was given a quota of the number of diary summaries he had to complete in a day, a quota that was barely met within the established time parameters. He explains that to survive at such a pace he needed to suppress his will for understanding and accuracy (375). There was no quality control on these essays, and Crawford even explains that the abstractions only added company "value" to their service and no real purpose to the content (375-376). Crawford's problem with white collar work is well understood, however in his essay he only considers the point of view of himself most of the time, adding a brief reference to his colleagues. These two men also wrote abstracts for the company and shared similar things