“...the suburban ideal of a detached dwelling in a semirural setting was related to an emerging distinction between Gemeinschaft, the primary, face-to-face relationships of home and family, and Gesellschaft, the impersonal and sometimes hostile outside society. (46) This is also a process whereby we distance ourselves from our work. And we grow more and more conscious of this paradox. This can be seen in the shift in the idea of a career: in our minds, the idea of work has become progressively more self-conscious. From something we do, to something we have to do. Once we had no career. We mostly did what our parents did. If we happened to choose not to, we did something else, but we generally still did some thing. Today, we are content with (consigned to) doing many things. Work becomes Career becomes Job.

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)