From Workaholic to Not Working: A Midlife Respite
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12 min readAug 23, 2021
Privilege acknowledgment: I am a straight white male who grew up with two parents in a comfortable and safe middle-class suburban home. My parents paid for college so I graduated without debt. I have no disabilities and while far from “pretty privilege,” I am not materially held back by the way I look. It is important to me to acknowledge all these advantages I had as life does not provide equal footing…