33: working woes
This week’s
❓Wonder
With post-pandemic remote work takeover, career advancement has changed. Do you abandon wage slavery for your passion projects?
🌲 Speculation
The cost of a career is high. The cost of entrepreneurship is even higher. With remote work becoming normalized, there is more opportunity for marginal flexibility that improves work-life sway if you were to stick with your career.
📱Application
In addition to death, illness, lost wages, loss of normalcy, and unprecedented wave of mental health issues, the pandemic has created space for marginal flexibility within the American white collar workforce.
Within these tough times, doubling down on a career more conducive to lifestyle needs is more productive than abandoning security during harsh economic times.
It takes getting over the meritocracy myth to view the status quo as pretty decent. No ladder climbing, no outside ventures, but with more of the same - including recognition of family time and the present.
🌹Thorns
Recently in the news we heard about millennials abandoning their careers to finally be true to their passions, because what else is the point?
True at some of the highest rates historically. Many of these people also did some side hustling while being at their main job, so they worked insanely hard in order to even get to this point.
Mothers lost all sanity and sense of boundaries when the pandemic hit, because they were forced to work with no childcare. Remote work has done anything but create balance.
Agreed, especially when you look at the comparison between mothers and fathers on mental health:
The imbalance between men and women in mental health is explained somewhat by shifts. While the pandemic worsened this, it is not solely responsible for it, as these shifts are culturally ingrained and arbitrary. Women have an opportunity to redefine their boundaries - and that means negotiating with their partners, not just their employers.
Whole💙ness
“Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. There are many intersectional exclusions…including indigenous people.” - Kimberle Crenshaw
To your health -
Soma
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