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The Creed Of Compromise: Don’t Quit Your Day Job To Follow Your Dream

13 mins | Feb 17, 2019

Thomas Maloney, writing in Aeon Magazine, discourages the idea of leaving your day job to follow your dream, and suggests a better path to fulfillment is to join the bifurcators who juggle work-for-pay and their work-for-love.

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