You’re a creative for a large corporation – a community manager perhaps, or a copywriter. Even a developer of internal documents and programs. A knowledge worker. You’re exceedingly good at what you do – you’ve been called into the C-suite a number of times to help out with disasters, and people in general respect you.
You work from a coffee shop off the main roads. You bring your laptop, your notebooks, your very high quality headphones. You go early, set up near the power outlet, and dig in long before the staff even has the sleep out of their eyes. You take your time – sometimes your day is ten hours long, but you bill the company for eight, reliably. You work, you watch. You’re the quintessential cafe witness.
You want to be invisible.
Why? Beyond being a leader in…