As consultants, and designers, and other work-from-home entrepreneurs, we get a lot of can I pick your brain and other exposure-type solicitation for free work. [Warning, here comes the rant] I think Ash from The Middle Finger Project summed it up best when she said: I know you don’t get it, or any of “that online stuff I do,” but that doesn’t give you the right to blatantly disrespect my hard work, or worse, act like I don’t work at all. Because somehow, you seem to think that “work from home” means “click things on Facebook while absentmindedly staring out window in an existential puddle of regret and disgust—and maybe even week-old urine. I had the spine to go after the life I wanted, the career I wanted, and the experiences I wanted, and it’s paid off. I didn’t do it to spite you, or to make you angry with yourself, or to make you suffer as you realize your own life is slowly ticking on by like a time bomb, and you’re still sitting there doing nothing. I did it because this is who I am, and anything less would have been a pathetic imitation. So maybe instead of trying to constantly bring me back to your level, you should consider stepping up to mine. Because I do work from home. And unlike everything you’re hoping? It was the best decision I’ve ever made. So the next time you want to pick someones brain or ask them for one small (free) favor, or think that your friend just doesnt get how hard YOU work because THEY work from home ... think twice. ~ Brooke
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:00:00 +0000
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