What Happens When Your Job Is Your Creative Muse, and It Goes Away

When I quit my 9–5, I had to relearn how to find inspiration from life itself

Ximena Vengoechea
Forge
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8 min readJul 30, 2021

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I have always felt summer to be particularly freeing — a holdover from childhood and blissfully long and unprogrammed summers punctuating the busy school year. Summers in New York, where I grew up, brought their own energy —…

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Ximena Vengoechea
Forge
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Writer, UX Researcher, Author of The Life Audit ('24), Rest Easy ('23), Listen Like You Mean It ('21). ximenavengoechea.com/books