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THURSDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 1962
Be your own boss.
Your new boss naps at 2pm, can't pay you, and has no pension plan.
— Zack, unqualified
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- You put "open to work" on LinkedIn. Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were…
- “Just one more game” of FIFA was the most dishonest sentence in the English…
- You don't skip leg day. You skip every day. The legs know. The legs…
- You put "entrepreneur" in your bio. You've sold one pair of trainers on Vinted…
- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
- Growing old is mandatory. Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later.…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
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