The 45 minutes included maybe 10 of actual business and 35 of me praying my laptop wouldn't slide off my knees into the gap between the stall wall and the toilet. I tried the classic bag-on-the-back-of-the-door move but the hook was broken, so I ended up wearing my backpack like a weird turtle shell while hunched over the keyboard. Worst part was having to sanitize the entire laptop afterwards because who knows what kind of particles were floating around in that tiny bathroom.

Oh man, same here! I swapped to 5000k bulbs and it fixed my headaches in like two days.

Ugh for real. It's wild how rare actual useful feedback is.

Man I know right? That gap in June would have had me pacing around my shop like a caged animal. But the way I see it $3,200 a month freelancing is still a solid chunk of change and you don't have to deal with a boss breathing down your neck all day. That kind of freedom might be worth the lean months if you can weather the storm. Plus if those clients came back and she built up a steady rotation of work she could easily outpace that $55k salary without the office politics. Some people just don't want to trade their time for a fixed number like that.

Buddy of mine got talked into that same book club, paid the $85, and the book was basically a guy complaining about his expensive divorce for 300 pages. He kept waiting for some big plot twist or deep insight and it just never showed up. Ended up using it to level a wobbly table at his apartment. Said it was the most useful that book ever was.