adopted this attitude and embraced a version of a career which philosopher Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”⁠9 From this perspective, my career was not a series of jobs, but a high‑stakes proposition, one where falling beh

trying to make money off a creative pursuit they truly love.

And often doing those alone. (Or in a glass cage at a “coworking space”.) The traditional idea of a “9-5 office” is declining … along with a built-in structure to meet new friends with similar interests, face- to-face.

And along with guaranteed socializing every day.

work worth doing. I didn’t want to escape work; I just craved work I cared about.