{"id":3676,"date":"2010-10-03T17:13:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T15:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2014-03-30T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:28:15","slug":"on-work-and-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/on-work-and-working\/","title":{"rendered":"On work and working"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t correlate our sense of responsibility with what we are actually producing. We correlate it with how hard we are being on ourselves. Thus anything that’s fun cannot possibly be work, and everything that’s unpleasant is.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2192 Harvard Business Review, Dan Pallotta: Worry isn’t work<\/a> [Via Eithface<\/a>]<\/p>\n

What I learned is that burning out isn\u2019t just about work load, it\u2019s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work. It was relatively easy to drag myself to classes when I thought I was working for my own betterment. It was hard to sit at a laptop and crank out slides when all I seemed to be accomplishing was the transfer of wealth from my client to my company.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2192 The Tech, Keith Yost: The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell<\/a> [Via Mefi<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Freelancing means walking from the West Village to the Upper East Side and back because you don\u2019t have enough money for the subway. Freelancing means being so poor and so hungry for so long that you \u201ceat\u201d a bowl of soup that\u2019s just hot water, crushed-up multivitamins and half your spice rack (mostly garlic salt).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2192 The Awl, Richard Morgan: Seven years as a freelance writer<\/a><\/p>\n

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