I must say, facebook can at times be a giant waste of time, but many times you discover things that you otherwise would never have known.

Through several clicks that started with a facebook post, I came across a podcast called Love + Radio.  Some of the podcasts are a little painful to listen to, but yesterday I came across one that was about a girl in her early 20s who made $30,000~$40,000 by blackmailing potential pedophiles.  She would create fake facebook profiles and pose as a teenager, talk to men, then threaten to out them to everyone unless they sent her an Amazon giftcard.

I was listening to the story while thinking about other things, and then the girl said (and I paraphrase):

When I work, I’m working super hard, I’m super focused.  But then when I close my laptop and walk away, I’m a different person. I’m back to old me, who is a pretty nice person.

So many of us yearn for a satisfying career, but also one that allows us to leave work at the office, and not follow us once we walk out the door.  But I’ve never thought about there being a “Work Me,” who is different from “Old Me”.  I personally think that, although we wear different hats (sister, wife, friend, mom, teacher, client, etc.) vis-a-vis various people, there is just one person wearing all of those hats.

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