I went from living the dream jobs in my 20s in the Neiman Marcus buying offices and then running analytics at LTK and ShopStyle to content creation. Now that I work for myself again (I did this for about 2 years in my late 20s before going back to corporate), the temptation is real. But none of the things we’re stopping actually pay off. They just lead to burnout, fast, like 1. Working on travel days - I used to think travel days were a missed opportunity to get work done because technically I’m sitting there on the plane with nothing else to do. But the reality of it would become me scrambling to get to the airport 3 hours early because a last minute call got thrown on my calendar for when I was originally trying to get to the airport. Then there were the days that the wifi wasn’t working on the plan and I had committed to a deadline. It’s just not worth the added stress at the end of the day to try to balance both.
 2. Performing busyness as a personality Being busy isn’t the flex that it used to be. Especially when it came to content creation, I thought I had to be overworked to be able to justify that this was a “real job.” By now we all know though that productivity and businesses are not the same thing. 3. The side hustle guilt The pressure to monetize every skill, hobby, and hour of free time. You’re allowed to be good at something just because you enjoy it without turning it into a brand, a course, or a passive income stream.