When I was growing up in the early 2000s, only celebrities got to be multihyphenates. Nowadays, it seems like many of my friends and I are. We’re working a 9-to-5, doing a project on the side, and documenting our journeys along the way. Some people call it chaotic, but a lot of us find it cathartic. Having multiple outlets to channel our energy and flex different muscles, be they analytical, strategic, or creative, can be extremely rewarding.

When I got my job as a management consultant, I knew it would be a challenge to figure out how to continue creating content on LinkedIn and writing opinion pieces, things I do outside of my job that I genuinely enjoy.

I know in this day and age work-life balance is damn near impossible, and I don’t strive for it. But at the same time, giving up content creation and writing opinion pieces wasn’t an option for me.

What happens when you make your job your whole life

At the beginning of 2020, I was working in commercial real estate consulting and feeling I had failed.…