Digital Connections are Not Relationships
My experience with working from home in an activist context
Suppose you want to help change the world/save the world/make a difference — (yes, you still, live in hope, even if you wonder sometimes, watching the news, if that may be delusional)!
You accept a role that pays you one quarter of your current salary. Your reasoning is that you never got paid to engage in anti-war protest/social justice or whatever other things you got involved in, before. The idea that you might get paid while doing what you used to be a weekend thing fitting in with your full-time work role, is amazing! Could I actually be paid (a bit) for my passion to put my weight behind the collective effort towards making the world better… wow… yes to that! I ticked off all the other plus points.
- Enables you to have time for your elderly mother
- Flexibility to be able to get on with your writing.
- Take a deep rest from being in semi-hostile white-only work settings
Living frugally, with your savings thrown in, you decide you can manage, at least for six months or so in this part-time role.
So, you attend a zoom meeting for the interview and answer the questions put by the two woman panel and a few days later you are…
