the country is now driving an Uber in Washington to support his family. Khalid Payenda oversaw a $6 billion budget in his homeland but fled as the country teetered on the verge of collapse. Now the father of four has joined the gig economy and tells, “I feel incredibly grateful for it.
It means I don’t have to be desperate.” Payenda is also co-teaching a course at Georgetown University and occasionally speaking at think-tanks as he copes with a sense of rootlessness and failure. “Right now, I don’t have any place,” he said. “I don’t belong here, and I don’t belong there. It’s a very empty feeling.”
You misspelled “takes advantage of free time to make extra money on the side”
count your blessings and be grateful you're alive at all, yea?
Ismailbwayo
Sylviaschnitjer
No shame in honest work.