Unpacking the “Day Job”
When I have nothing but time for more than six months or so, my depression soars. My anxiety about money is through the roof. And the pressure to make something out of each day, when all I’m really doing is writing little words on my little Word Doc, words that people may never see and I may never get paid for—all while convincing myself, in the
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Personally, I’m going to try to make it work as a writer. But if I don’t, I’m just going to get a job again and I’m going to write on the side. That to me feels like being an adult. I don’t think the world is unfair to me for forcing me to create enterprise value. I can create some enterprise value, and my enterprise value will subsidize me for... See more