HUMANS 101

If You Want to Enjoy Your Job, Try Failing

When I burned out at work, I tried doing things I was bad at. It worked.

Ultimately, my house-painting side gig did not work out. Photo by Ricardo Viana on Unsplash

Some time in 2019, I became sick of my own writing. This was an accomplishment, considering how much I normally love the sound of my own voice. I had been writing professionally for a decade; I had carved out a beat on “women’s…