Making shadow work work for me
“Shadow work is all the unpaid for labour done in a wage-based economy.”
Shadow work includes: commuting to work, doing the laundry, figuring out how to use self-checkout at the grocery store…
All this unaccounted for labour adds mental strain, called decision fatigue, to our already very exhaustive mental energy. Life hacks that limit shadow work are often circulated. For example, certain “successful people” wear the same thing every day to reduce the shadow work required to decide what to wear every morning.
While life hacks help you minimize shadow work, what if you can make shadow work work for you? What if there is a way to profit from it?
All this is basically a segue for me to show you some interesting money-earning and money-saving apps.