Looking after yourself is important, at least as important as attending to your responsibilities.
My work has had so much pressure lately: persistent threat of mass layoffs, a massive reorganization, a new boss, a change in team dynamics that has seen some of the shittiness in others rise to the surface, new duties, needing to prove my worth at work all over again, make new relationships.
I haven’t been sleeping properly, my other latent health issues are acting up.
Screw work for today. Nobody will die if I don’t go. I’m just gonna chill.
I just want to remind everyone who needs to take a break to do it if they can. I realize its not an option available to everyone… I’ve lived most of my life in that mode but I’m able to do it for now.
heck im old and living off savings and sure im looking for work but like I could not be more demotivated with the way things are. I have never felt more like I have to put on a mask with work things than now.
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I worked at a research lab at one point. I would say there was really no mask there. There sorta was maybe at the high levels where the directors had to schmooze for grant funding but for us folks doing the work with the students it was a blast. I would likely still be working there except for the bush era cuts to NSF.
Word. I was at a meeting today and thought to myself, “oh I remember triclosan from my time in ICI contract manufacturing…when was that again??? …20 years ago? 💀”
There is a very thin slice of the working world where my particular quirks (within the bounds of a level of masking I can tolerate, generally) are not persecuted and I’m SOL otherwise.
I think things have gotten worse for sure.