In her new book, The Myth of Making It, former Teen Vogue editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay unpacks the lies we tell ourselves about work.
We’ve all pretty much concluded that work sucks. During the pandemic and in the shaky years since, some problems have come into sharper focus: We’re overworked, underpaid, burned out, uninterested in being girl bosses but also not entirely thrilled by the prospect of frittering our one wild, precious life away working in lazy girl jobs.
I didn't have any boundaries with work. I was very comfortable working above and beyond, basically allowing my own labor to be exploited, my ideas to be exploited in the service of a bigger dream — that this would somehow get me to a place where I would find happiness and own a home and pay off my student debt — and all of those things that we now know are lies. I very much bought into it, so subconsciously and so deeply that it's hard for me to deprogram myself.
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