I Never Wanted to Visit My Parents’ Work Prison

How to redefine the concept and value of work

Sarah Paris
8 min readAug 19, 2021

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As a kid, I saw grown-up jobs as a cluster of hideous monsters waiting to gobble me up. I thought “careers” equaled drone-like masses who finally gave up on their dreams. I could only comprehend that work took my affable Dad away for far too long, and it returned him home dusted with dull anger.

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Sarah Paris

Author of Signs My Toddler Has a Drinking Problem (humor collection).Freelance writer of all things. Fiction is my heartbeat. Believer. Adventurer. Semi- funny.