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What Do You Do All Day? - Michelle Varghoose's Newsletter

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Untangling my identity from other people's perceptions

It was summer and my friend and I were sitting outside a hair salon turned museum in Joshua Tree, waiting for his wife and my sister to retrieve dinner recommendations from the owner inside. Knowing the chatty owner would keep them for a while, we sat down on two old fashion salon chairs by the door, shielding our eyes from the bright desert sun. He broke our silence by asking me, “So what do you do all day?” One of the downsides of putting off my return to the corporate world is I get asked this question a lot. Struggling to be vulnerable, I often tell people I’m working on “creative…

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