Along the lines of the last post I commented on from Doug Belshaw, this also reflects on identify and how what you do for work my swallow that. I’m more familiar with Mike Monteiro’s talks, F*ck You Pay Me, and What Your Client’s Don’t Know and Why It’s Your Fault. Both are excellent watches/listens.
That’s heavy, but I think it is something that has really been exacerbated since COVID, at least for me. The last thing I did before the university I worked at went remote in 2020 was fight at a Judo tournament. Everything outside of work stopped at that time so I, like many others I assume, went very online and took on a lot of extra work. What else could I do. One habit I formed for a little while at least to try to separate work from life was close my laptop and go play Tetris 99 at the end of the day to try to mentally separate myself from the work day. Although what followed was switching gears to client work.
In some kind of bizarre blessing, social media platforms became places that no longer appealed to me (reasons should be pretty obvious), and so I was really able to bring myself back to offline hobbies with greater attention. The kind of balance between work and play is still tricky but feels more attainable without having to be online all the time to feel a sense of community or to get the kinds of interaction I need to recharge.
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