Make mine a micro-job Why working one day a week is the secret of happiness

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I want to see those researchers and journalists create their own companies and compete on the market with their brilliant ideas

>> create their own companies and compete on the market with their brilliant ideas

Most of the time that doesn't bring happiness.

If you get lucky you will fail fast or succeed fast otherwise the whole thing becomes quite painful.

Source: I have some experience with the latter scenarior.

Sorry for you. I am an employer and I wouldn't like to depend on someone available 7 hours per week and the cost to even train that person would be already be not worth it.

But I guess it would be feasible for someone full time and trained to reduce progressively to one or two days per week after negotiation with the employer

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