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When Work Becomes Personal

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Is Your Time Worth It?

In many ways, we are all in the gig economy, whether we know it or not. And one of the things that i think its interesting is the nature of the anxiety that that very close relationship with work generates. When you start working in this way where work becomes very personal, everything is existential. Everything you do is an expression of yourself. If you succeed, you're a success. But when there's no longer a boundary, and the office was the ultimate boundary between the personal and professional self, you don't have failures. You become a failure. I remember seeing it in independent workers, and now i'm experiencing it myself. I'm seeing it with everyone. The realization...

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