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Notes on Work | The New Yorker

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There’s a masochistic pride to overworking. How heavy a workload can I truly handle? How many plates can I keep in the air?

Save this story Save this story 1. Sometimes I feel as though I have five jobs, and then I realize that this is, in fact, the case. The jobs are teaching at three colleges, working for a private test-prep company, and writing. The last job is the most rewarding but also the one with the most unknowns. “How long does it take you to write a story?” my non-writer friends will ask, and proceed to tell me that, if only I wrote faster, or had a team, like James Patterson , then I could produce up to six solid books in a year. 2. Since writing is not a cost-effective profession, practically speaking,

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