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Quality Work on My Terms: When I Feel Like It, I Excel!

I promise to work hard for four hours per day, unless I’m just not feeling it that day

Michelle Teheux
6 min readAug 27, 2024

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I come from an old-style newspaper background, which means I was trained to work like hell every single day for low pay.

So I’ve been surprised to read so many comments claiming that workers actually only put in a few solid hours per day and that nobody can really go full-tilt for eight hours. Many workers say they’re quiet quitting and it hasn’t set off their supervisor’s alarms. And I’ve read several accounts of people holding down as many as three full-time remote jobs at once and nobody at any of these workplaces noticing the difference.

I have only one question:

How does one get such a job?

In my recent piece One Simple School Change Would Help Kids, Families, Teachers and Employers, I suggested that school days be aligned with the most common work schedule. Several people suggested we do it…

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Michelle Teheux
Michelle Teheux

Written by Michelle Teheux

Lover of literature. Former newspaper editor. Fascinated by everything. Contact: michelleteheux@gmail.com. To buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/michelleteheux

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