The work : the search for a life that matters / Wes Moore.

Work to do -- The lesson of the student: come to learn, leave to lead -- The worker #1: The outsider -- The lesson of the professional: the wisdom of quitting -- The worker #2: The believer -- The lesson of the soldier: finding your fight -- The worker #3: The healers -- The lesson of the public servant: the work of the people, by the people, for the people -- The worker #4: The globalist -- The lesson of the risk taker: the gamble of doing nothing -- The worker #5: the risk taker -- The lesson of the worker: granting yourself permission -- The worker #6: the mentor -- The lesson of the family: remember to live -- Appendix: Doing the work.

The delinquent-turned-Oxford scholar picks up after the events of his best-selling The Other Wes Moore to trace his search for purpose in Afghanistan, on Wall Street and in the White House, sharing inspirational stories by others who found meaning in a life in service.

"Wes Moore's remarkable bestseller The Other Wes Moore ends when Wes completes his journey from a fatherless delinquent to college graduate and heads off to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. But what happens next? Next, he had to figure out the answer to the question: What is your work? More than finding a job, he had to find the work he was meant to do. For the next decade, Wes traced a path through some of the most fascinating and high-pressure workspaces in the world: an American student at Oxford after 9/11; a combat officer in Afghanistan during the most intense years of fighting; a White House fellow during the tumult of the late Bush years; an Obama organizer during that historic campaign; a Wall Street banker at the cusp of the financial crisis; and finally, back home to Baltimore, working to revitalize that troubled city. This is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to discover the meaning of his life -- and how after a series of misdirections and lesson-teaching mistakes, he found that meaning in service.