I’ve never held down a full-time job for more than a few months, and most of my professional life has been made up of freelance work, usually augmented with enough part-time work to cover my rent and bills in case Twitter mistakes me for a racist or all my clients are hit by the same asteroid.
The ability to find a way to live comfortably without doing a 9–5 job is one of the aspects of my life I’m proudest of, but the…