I’m a lil confused about workers — when I start a worker with

prefect worker start -t process -p local-work

I enter into a prompt where I am unable to type more. I think that’s to be expected, but then how do I assoicate a worker with a work-pool that can be called upon later?

once the workpool is created, you just need to write

prefect worker start --pool <my-pool-name>

You can use a second terminal or background the worker process.