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.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.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.EDIT: My personal investment in that viewpoint has been largely about finding better workplaces and better ways to work, e.g. http://likewise.am/2015/12/18/why-i-love-industrious-and-abo...