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That approach helped with my transition from full-time employment, but it locked in a lot of my work hours and left me inflexible to make the ongoing adjustments necessary to calibrate a viable freelance career.

The outspoken Goldberg could come across as dogmatic and inflexible, but proved strategic behind the scenes.

Mr Leary-May said the school had been inflexible in accommodating his son's needs.

The tradeoff of simply providing access but with inflexible guardrails means that being given access can be just as stressful as not having had access in the first place.

But caring for a special needs child made navigating the long, inflexible hours nearly impossible.