The Advantage Of Being A Little Underemployed

For starters, we can stop viewing our work as our lives and learn to distinguish the two or intertwine them. We can plan specific pursuits for our spare time, rather than flitting it away. We can take stock of how much free time we actually have and where it is going. Then, we can structure those hours and minutes to ensure they are used for someth... See more

In one of my jobs, for months at a time I would have just five to ten hours of client work a week, but I was still expected to commute and be in the office for more than 55 hours a week. I literally did laps around the office, drank extra coffee just to feel something, and took two-hour lunches in the park, sometimes taking a nap on the grass. That

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