Raising my son.
Playing music with my friends.
Building a home and relationships with my partners.
Building my body and mind through long term studies of various branches of philosophical and intellectual inquiry.
Caring for specific peoples' specific needs.
That all might sound hippy-dippy or unrealistic, but because of the history of our economy we tend to value only monetarily compensated public labor as "work", when in fact the domestic labor that recreates ourselves across time (like building homes and raising children) is far more intimate and important to our lives.
That is just my limited experience; I'm open to being wrong about that in other people.
And that's maybe a tough set of priorities if you're working 60 hours a week (including commute and the domestic labor that goes into maintaining yourself for the sole purposes of being able to do paid labor).
So, as I recognized that, I optimized my for-pay labor (I'm a web dev) into a 30-hour-a-week salaried 100% remote deal with a person who is a fantastic sales person. The work is fun and interesting, but more importantly it can be "just about the paycheck" because the meaningful work in my life gets enough time and attention for me to feel good about that work and see the results.
I dunno if that would work for other people, but it's been working well for me.
Playing music with my friends.
Building a home and relationships with my partners.
Building my body and mind through long term studies of various branches of philosophical and intellectual inquiry.
Caring for specific peoples' specific needs.
That all might sound hippy-dippy or unrealistic, but because of the history of our economy we tend to value only monetarily compensated public labor as "work", when in fact the domestic labor that recreates ourselves across time (like building homes and raising children) is far more intimate and important to our lives.
That is just my limited experience; I'm open to being wrong about that in other people.
And that's maybe a tough set of priorities if you're working 60 hours a week (including commute and the domestic labor that goes into maintaining yourself for the sole purposes of being able to do paid labor).
So, as I recognized that, I optimized my for-pay labor (I'm a web dev) into a 30-hour-a-week salaried 100% remote deal with a person who is a fantastic sales person. The work is fun and interesting, but more importantly it can be "just about the paycheck" because the meaningful work in my life gets enough time and attention for me to feel good about that work and see the results.
I dunno if that would work for other people, but it's been working well for me.