Internal assessment of self-worth is one thing. But one thing that I noticed while I was between jobs, was that the rest of the world was also built under the assumption that you "had a job".
Sign up for financial anything, they always ask you, which company you're with? What's your title? What's the range of your income?
I don't know if this is the case in the US, but in my country, I couldn't even open a brokerage account because the automated form required an office job. Entering freelancing or anything of some sort will get auto-rejected.
So it is in your face, all the time. And actually at that time I was fortunate enough not to have to worry about bills etc.
Sign up for financial anything, they always ask you, which company you're with? What's your title? What's the range of your income?
I don't know if this is the case in the US, but in my country, I couldn't even open a brokerage account because the automated form required an office job. Entering freelancing or anything of some sort will get auto-rejected.
So it is in your face, all the time. And actually at that time I was fortunate enough not to have to worry about bills etc.