The Cardinal Rule of Professional DMs

An OOO isn’t just about availability. It’s a boundary

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Today was the last official day of a nearly two-week vacation I’d been planning for several months.

When you’re self-employed, ‘vacation’ is about a thousand percent more difficult to pull off than when you have a salary and PTO. Partly this is because self-employment means you’re in…