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Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits

Flourishing Despite Modernity

Hey, Z: Stop Worrying about Your Life-Work Balance

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Eric Scheske
Nov 24, 2025
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I wasn’t thrilled about our town’s Mexican invasion back in the 1990s. I wanted my town to become a mini-Tijuana about as much as I wanted to become a prison wife.

But it didn’t take me long to realize my co-religionists from across the border could drink me under the table, pray me under the table, and work me under the table.

Especially work. Damn, can …

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