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Dick Roy serves as a prototype of one genus of downshifter, the men or women whose very success causes them to challenge the premises of the American Dream.
Drake said his workaholic, Type A personality made him an unlikely downshifter, but he had a sense that something was missing from his life : He wasn't putting enough into his relationships.
Wilson's conflict hints at downshifting's darker side, the anxieties and dilemmas that don't appear in public-opinion polls or other studies treating downshifting as a cultural phenomenon rather than as one experienced uniquely by each downshifter and his or her family.
Schor notes that there's no " typical " downshifter profile, and her interviews bear that out, though many of the people she talked with had one thing in common : They hated their jobs and were willing to chance almost anything for a change.
Like Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, the downshifter prefers not to : not to sacrifice relationships with family, friends, and community in exchange for career advancement; not to defer hopes and ideals in the name of making a living; not to fall prey to the lures of heedless consumption.