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Do This To Double the Amount of Happiness You Get Out of Life
Your job is the key to both misery and happiness.
"It's never been easier to make a living by doing what you love, and folks are taking notice", said Zulie Rane in one of her latest stories about The Great RE-Employment.
This intro alone could make you feel like it's yet another article telling you to give up a comfy 9-to-5 and find your happiness through grueling solopreneurship.
But pay attention to the full title because it ends in "as side hustlers face reality".
Zulie is saying that many of the people who rushed to give up their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic are now looking into getting their jobs back.
They've discovered the harsh reality that being a full-time, independent creator is not for the faint-hearted. And that they have traded the misery at work for the misery of working from home for themselves.
At the same time, another article on the same topic grabbed me by the eyeballs as it was sitting in my Recommended For You feed.
Tim Denning recently published the story "The Great Resignation Is Stupid", where he argues that "we've been trying to quit our jobs since forever".
