| i've been there. kind of am there. prob going to job again, ideally part-time or 4-day, but we'll see. always trying to launch my own business, but i'm not so good at it. whenever i'm not working a 9-to-5, i often feel a great amount of energy to do ALL THE THINGS, and I try many of them, and that part is great - it feels natural / normal / human. as opposed to, how Adam Smith describes jobs in Wealth of Nations: “The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ”
i listen to a lot of side hustle-type pods -- like Side Hustle School:https://sidehustleschool.com/ the guy has one or two books too, i think. in one recent episode he said something along the lines of, "just start something, and other stuff may/will appear because.... that's just how the world works." which sounds reasonable to me. |