Hillaire Long used to like the pace of her job and life. Sure, trying to do it all could be unrelenting at times; but everyone was in the rat race right along with her.
Then the pandemic showed her an alternative way to work—one that she didn’t get to participate in. And she felt jealous.
Long, 37, lives with her boyfriend, who works as a vice president at a Mississippi-based company that supplies lighting equipment. When the pandemic hit, he joined the millions of Americans who set up shop and began working from home. Long, a residential and commercial construction project manager, had to keep waking up at 5:30 a.m. to go to the office—and after a while, the jealousy started to creep in.
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