I feel like this is largely a myth propagated by business. If you feel powerless to control things like your pay or work life balance, then they control it by

I feel like this is largely a myth propagated by business. If you feel powerless to control things like your pay or work life balance, then they control it by default. I found once I learned to set boundaries in my personal life that doing it at work was easy because I don’t have to care about an employer’s feelings and my income skyrocketed.