This borderless work life is no longer just a freelancer's reality, or the domain of high-billing lawyers and Silicon Valley creative-class innovators. Post-recession, work means a patch-work of part-time gigs for many people, with no set pattern to the week. Millennials tend their brands around the edges of precarious work. My husband is a teacher, and he spends his nights and weekends managing emails from anxious parents and students, then scrambling back to his analog duties like marking and lesson planning. "It's like we're all doctors now, forever on call," I tell him, leaning in the doorway late at night, taking in the familiar sight of his back turned to me at the computer. "Really low-stakes doctors."