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I had a friend who worked at a plant and was an author on the side. I don’t think there’s any evidence that good novelists (let alone merely promising ones) are likely to have personalities that make them likely to be bosses.


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ZiiS11/07/2025

No, as demonstrated from the retreating from the office. Someone with exceptional written communication, who dose self-starter side projects, commandeeres a truck, _and_ talks a skip-level manager into giving him special consideration is sounding a lot more like a boss.

2b3a5111/04/2025

How does this union thing work - getting laid off then being brought back on again when work picks up? How do you get to be on the union list?

(I'm in the UK, and I tend to associate that kind of approach to casual employment with dock work in sea ports. That ended with containerisation in the 1980s)

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