Working from Home — When your parents don’t understand that you have a ‘real’ job.

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It’s dismissive to say the least to be unable to acknowledge the opportunities modern technology has allowed us young folks to build careers we wouldn’t have imagined could exist Ten Years ago. It’s been a while since I’ve held a ‘real’ job, in the beliefs of my elderly relatives. I understand where they’re coming from, because of course sitting in front of a computer screen is hardly considered ‘hard-work’. Why would anybody consider there can be ‘real work-stress’ associated with sitting in front a computer screen for 15 hours as I juggle three different ‘paying’ jobs when I don’t even have…...

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Nabeel Tahir Nabeel is a research analyst and CEO of Honeycomb, a private investment consultation business, which is based out of both the U.A.E. and Pakistan. Previous he worked in the academic research field at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he completed his research doctorate in Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism.