You Don’t Need More Free Time
Having been self-employed for eight years now, with all the 24/7 life/work home/office work/play crossover it brings, it's been so long since I could relate to this perspective, or experience the joy of happy hour or TGIF. I often work weekends, while am prone to accomplish very little on a random Wednesday.<p>It's not that I'm always working or that I'm preternaturally time-efficient, organised or productive, it's just that there are no clear boundaries between work and non-work hours (for good or ill), nor between most friends and colleagues.<p>Maybe this doesn't apply to most people, but with the proportion of the economy accounted for by solitary freelancers expected to rise, I would think I'm not the only one who doesn't even remember what weekends or holidays are anymore. If so, it seems to me that a more enlightened and forward-thinking perspective would take into account the fluidity of work-life space for many Millennials (and beyond), rather than trying to shoehorn us back into mid 20th century big-corporate life rhythms.<p>EDIT: My personal investment in that viewpoint has been largely about finding better workplaces and better ways to work, e.g. <a href="http://likewise.am/2015/12/18/why-i-love-industrious-and-about-coworking-and-offices-more-generally/" rel="nofollow">http://likewise.am/2015/12/18/why-i-love-industrious-and-abo...</a>