I bought a standing desk recently.
Which, it turns out, has mostly resulted in me realizing I don't really want to stand at a desk either.
I want to walk.
I've always been like this to some degree. Some of my best ideas come when I'm out on a really long walk, moving around, talking things through in my head.
And now with AI and voice dictation, this has gotten kind of ridiculous.
I use Wispr Flow constantly. Instead of sitting down and typing out every thought, I can just walk around and talk.
* Strategy
* Emails
* Landing-page ideas
* Problems I'm trying to solve
Half the time I'm basically arguing with an AI out loud like a crazy person.
It's been brutally hot here lately, so I've been doing less of it than I'd like.
But I'm genuinely looking forward to fall because I have this vision of taking a few days where I just go down to the beach and walk 8 to 10 miles while working.
That is the workday.
No office.
Maybe barely even a computer.
Just headphones, a phone, AI, the ocean, and me wandering around talking to myself for a few hours.
Which would have sounded like an absolutely ridiculous way to describe "going to work" not that long ago.
And it got me thinking about one of the career acceleration calls I had this week.
The woman I spoke with wasn't looking for remote or hybrid work because she desperately wanted to sit at home in sweatpants.
Her partner simply had an unpredictable schedule. They barely get to see each other sometimes. They're thinking about starting a family. And depending on where she worked, she could potentially end up driving two hours to work and two hours home.
Four hours a day. That's 16% of your life, 71% of the week days.
At that point, "remote versus office" isn't some cute little perk on the benefits page.
It's a fairly massive part of your life.
And I think people sometimes get too obsessed with optimizing a career around the obvious numbers:
What's the salary?
What's the title?
How prestigious is the company?
All important.
But the job is also buying a chunk of your LIFE.
Where do you have to be? When do you have to be there? How much time disappears getting there and back? Can you see your spouse? Can you pick up your kid? Can you go for a walk when your brain works better on a walk?
For me, one of the most valuable things about the businesses I've built is that, on the right day, my office can apparently be a 10-mile stretch of beach.
That's worth something to me.
For somebody else, the dream might be the opposite. Maybe you hate working from home and desperately want an office full of people.
Fine.
The point is to actually know what you're optimizing for. Because getting a "better job" that pays you $10,000 more while making the rest of your life considerably worse may not actually be much of an upgrade.
That's one of the first things we have to figure out at Unfair Careers:
Not just what job can you get?
What job do you actually WANT?
Then we build the search around that.
If you want help doing it, hit the link below: