Blessings Come to Those Who Work for Them

A friend of mine just launched her app. 6 months ago she was freaking out about her operations contract expiring. The company she contracted for allowed her to feel like a replaceable second-class citizen.

That's the dynamic of contract work in tech. You give your energy to a machine that views you as a line item. Most likely she may even return to that world eventually — this time as a software engineer. But right now, she shipped something of her own.

F**k it. I'm going to build my own, myself.

Blessings come to those who work for them.

— Jay