ScatterBrain

Before TalentEgg, I had a work email address, and (multiple) personal email addresses. While I occasionally received personal emails on my work address, anyone who emailed me there knew that I wouldn’t be accessing that account after 5:30pm or on weekends.

Today, I really have 1 functional email address – lauren at talentegg – and it receives everything.

Two years ago, when I had a comfortable job in London, England, I could leave work at 5:30 and spend my evenings carelessly enjoying a beer in a nearby pub, or (more likely) killing a few braincells indulging in some East Enders or Hollyoaks.

Last night, I had a string of dreams about different issues that are going on at work – hiring, accounts receivable, sales, etc.

To borrow a phrase from Penelope Trunk, I’ve been thinking a lot about the intersection of work and life. For me, I feel like it’s not so much an intersection but just one giant, inescapable…scribble… with many, many intersections instead of just one.

This is fantastic, because I love my work. And it’s also sometimes suffocating, because sometimes, when work is hard, I find it hard to escape.

This weekend, I attended an event for TalentEgg and heard a terrifying speech from Brett Wilson (of Dragon’s Den fame). He told the audience about his entrepreneurial journey, including the part where he realized that his single-minded devotion to his work almost ruined his life and alienated him from his family. Absolutely terrifying.