My mum's grandmother used to say that she was glad she was on her way out of the world and not on her way in.
I have encountered two people today expressing similar symptoms associated with their work but at both ends of the spectrum. One was a friend of mine I met on the dog walk this morning who works for a pretty crap company I think who aren't very nice to him. He was looking down the barrell of a horrible week this week, desperate to be able just to stop and not do it anymore. He's not old enough or rich enough for that.
The second was someone older in the profession I was having a conversation with about changes to guidelines and how we have to move things along, get better and improve again. He's just now fed up and was talking to me about facts and figures which are obviously way out of date - he just doesn't have the stomach or the heart to renew and relearn again. He is rich enough and old enough to get out.
I totally understand both sides of this coin from both people. Resilience is difficult, that's the nature of resilience - it's hard to keep going in the face of what seems like overwhelming work to do and obstacles and difficulties and people who want to try and cut you down. But as always it's the same for all of us and that means it's normal.
If you can re-tune your dial and just find the bits that you like and focus on them, on the inspirational moments, (and we all have them) then we can flip it round and see that the opposite of life is not work and work is an integral part of life.
Blog Post Number - 1271
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