Category: Work
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Happiness Mirages of Work and Love
Everything will be perfect, if only I find the right person, if only I find the right work. I just finished reading an essay: Is That All There Is? Why Burnout is a Broken Promise. In it, the author conveys how passion-for-work seems to invariably land at a final destination: the loss and mourning, not…
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Self-Imposed Wage Slavery
Why Did I Chain Myself to Work, and Do I Let Myself Go? When I was 19, I drove full-throttle into the corporate world. The internet tsunami was overtaking humanity and I had a surfboard: skills to build tech that businesses were desperate for. At that young age, I knew more about the internet and…