Self-Employment

Are you an employee or are you self-employed?

If you are self-employed, what problems do you face that you probably wouldn't if you were an employee?

@fmf said
If you are self-employed, what problems do you face that you probably wouldn't if you were an employee?

@fmf said
I have some difficulty managing my distractions.

@fmf said
I have some difficulty managing my distractions.

@kevin-eleven said
My sympathies. I'm retired now and more scattered than when I was working. Maybe because working to support oneself involves some degree of fear and the adrenaline helps with focus?

I also think that the internet and the info flood exacerbate any ADD tendencies.

How about some kind of daily meditation to develop detachment from attentional snares as well as selecti ...[text shortened]... focus? I know it might seem like a waste of time, but think of it as developing your mental fascia.

@divegeester said
You seem to be able to lose it within one post; this one for example.

@kevin-eleven said
Thank you!

@divegeester said
Thank you, for not getting unreasonably twisted out of shape.

@kevin-eleven said
Thank you, for providing a swimming pool without water.

@divegeester said
Thank you for diving in head first.

“No man can swim unless he enters deep water.”
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Studies in Occultism;

@kevin-eleven said
Thank you for no longer putting my crayons up your nostrils. However, to be fair, after Crayola changed the color set yet again some of those crayons were alien to me and I really didn't care about them.

@divegeester said
Thank you for your dancing thoughts, which are like a field of Cabbage Whites fluttering restlessly in the summer sky of my youth.

@kevin-eleven said
Perhaps they were drawn to your inner light, when you were young.

@divegeester said
Perhaps it is the other way around; a reciprocation from the butterflies of youth.

@kevin-eleven said
Mm.