Work is a Place
My buddy Luke recently started a band called Tattoo Mustache. While we were chatting, his eyes lit up talking about jamming in the studio with his bandmates - his arms were flailing and you could feel the energy coming off him like steam from a hot pan. These weekly jam sessions are something magical - “You can just rent a studio for 3 hours” he said “it’s like $116 and they have a drum kit and keyboard and everything!”.
I’ve been working for myself for almost 10 years and the story I told myself was “Hey I’ve been working from home for years, well before COVID. It’s easy and I like it”.
After a nourishing chat with my buddy Howard I decided to go back and look more closely at how I’ve actually spent my time working for myself. Here’s one way to look at my consulting journey so far1:
In retrospect it’s kind of amazing to look at that four year period of being a corporate nomad, bouncing around from one client to another all over NYC. I remember one period in the summer of 2018 where I was on-site with Essence three days a week and on-site with Ziff Davis two days a week.
