It was 4:14 PM on a Tuesday in 2018, and I was sitting in a cramped breakroom at a logistics firm in Des Moines, staring at a lukewarm cup of vending machine coffee. I had a spreadsheet open on my lap and a text from my sister on my phone asking why I hadn’t RSVP’d …
On October 14th, 2021, I sat in my car in a grocery store parking lot and cried for twenty minutes because a guy named Steve sent me a Slack message asking for a ‘quick’ update on a spreadsheet. Steve was my biggest client. His company, a mid-sized logistics firm in Chicago, was paying me $8,400 …
