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I've been offered a really unique, challenging job, but I'm so burnt out from my last one I don't know if I should accept it. I feel grateful and excited, and ungrateful and terrified, and like I should take it because it's stable even if I'm not.
It's resting heavy in me, knowing that my next 21 months might be so work focused when maybe I need the me focus to not just be a sassy little crisp of a human.
I have to respond today, I have no idea what I'll do xoxo
It's resting heavy in me, knowing that my next 21 months might be so work focused when maybe I need the me focus to not just be a sassy little crisp of a human.
I have to respond today, I have no idea what I'll do xoxo
Mar 3, 2025
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🤔LMFAO this plot twist!!! I know you guys have been rooting for me along this journey so I‘m more than happy to continue oversharing.
A few months ago, I asked to cross-train into my current company’s core revenue-generating business. They were receptive, but the process kind of stalled out, so I started to look for other opportunities because I really am ready to move into something new, and there’s no future in my current career track.
After I had already started the interview process, I finally got the green light to start! I ended up doing so well at my first assignment that the team I’m training with said I’m progressing unexpectedly quickly, and they were genuinely impressed. The work is pretty precise and strategic, and the assumption going in was that the learning curve would be steep and take some time to adjust to, so it came as a surprise that I took to it so quickly.
Now I’m wondering if chasing novelty and short-term gain would mean walking away from long-term growth, especially after building strong relationships and trust across the company, all the way up to executive leadership…
I have this pattern of fantasizing that the grass is greener on the other side, sometimes to the point that I disregard who I actually am. I thought I wanted to develop entirely new skills, but this work uses my existing strengths in a new and meaningful way, and it may be a better fit than I realized. This is a lucrative and highly gatekept profession, so being given the opportunity to learn from successful veterans in the field is incredibly rare, especially for someone without a formal education like me.
If I stay and commit to this role, the potential compensation increase would match or surpass the one I’d get from leaving—effectively doubling my income, while staying fully remote with a flexible schedule and great benefits. I was kind of into the idea of LARPing as a girlboss but honestly I love sitting around all day with Benny and Bunny without even having to wear pants.
I’m going to see how things unfold, but I might already be exactly where I need to be 🫢
A few months ago, I asked to cross-train into my current company’s core revenue-generating business. They were receptive, but the process kind of stalled out, so I started to look for other opportunities because I really am ready to move into something new, and there’s no future in my current career track.
After I had already started the interview process, I finally got the green light to start! I ended up doing so well at my first assignment that the team I’m training with said I’m progressing unexpectedly quickly, and they were genuinely impressed. The work is pretty precise and strategic, and the assumption going in was that the learning curve would be steep and take some time to adjust to, so it came as a surprise that I took to it so quickly.
Now I’m wondering if chasing novelty and short-term gain would mean walking away from long-term growth, especially after building strong relationships and trust across the company, all the way up to executive leadership…
I have this pattern of fantasizing that the grass is greener on the other side, sometimes to the point that I disregard who I actually am. I thought I wanted to develop entirely new skills, but this work uses my existing strengths in a new and meaningful way, and it may be a better fit than I realized. This is a lucrative and highly gatekept profession, so being given the opportunity to learn from successful veterans in the field is incredibly rare, especially for someone without a formal education like me.
If I stay and commit to this role, the potential compensation increase would match or surpass the one I’d get from leaving—effectively doubling my income, while staying fully remote with a flexible schedule and great benefits. I was kind of into the idea of LARPing as a girlboss but honestly I love sitting around all day with Benny and Bunny without even having to wear pants.
I’m going to see how things unfold, but I might already be exactly where I need to be 🫢
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💻i know i'm so privileged to have a chill wfh job where workload isn't high and no pressure from managers, but i also feel like something within me is dying inside. (i also definitely have undiagnosed adhd as do both my parents lol)
when i DO have to do work, it is so fucking boring and i don't care about any of it. it's just writing up boring reports. so i procrastinate having to do them all the time which leads to a kind of weird low-level ambient stress that hovers over the rest of my life. the job is essentially a dead-end as i will never get promoted. my life goal is to continue writing (i currently write a substack newsletter) and one day have a novel, which technically this job allows me the time/flexibility to work on.... but i can't help wondering if staying in all day on my computer is depriving me of richer life experiences...
don't get me wrong, i read as much as i can at home, call other friends with boring wfh jobs lol and do online courses etc, but idk.... i hate not feeling more agentic over my time. but does anyone ever? i've been offered a 2x a week PT role in a town nearby and it'll pay enough to cover rent but i'd definitely have to hussle for freelance stuff to make-up the difference, and idk if i'm ready to give up my laziness.... but is too much comfortability what life is about? GOD IDK
when i DO have to do work, it is so fucking boring and i don't care about any of it. it's just writing up boring reports. so i procrastinate having to do them all the time which leads to a kind of weird low-level ambient stress that hovers over the rest of my life. the job is essentially a dead-end as i will never get promoted. my life goal is to continue writing (i currently write a substack newsletter) and one day have a novel, which technically this job allows me the time/flexibility to work on.... but i can't help wondering if staying in all day on my computer is depriving me of richer life experiences...
don't get me wrong, i read as much as i can at home, call other friends with boring wfh jobs lol and do online courses etc, but idk.... i hate not feeling more agentic over my time. but does anyone ever? i've been offered a 2x a week PT role in a town nearby and it'll pay enough to cover rent but i'd definitely have to hussle for freelance stuff to make-up the difference, and idk if i'm ready to give up my laziness.... but is too much comfortability what life is about? GOD IDK
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⌨️In June of 2023 I quit my job as a news producer after two years. I had a “mini retirement“ or whatever name it has now before it was trendy. I didn’t quietly quiet. I literally quit. I’ve written poems, won awards for poems, worked on my novel, abandoned my novel, come back to my novel, solo traveled, slept in, got into block printing, planted a garden, gone to concerts, tried to untangle the knot of anxiety inside of me, helped take care of my grandparents, done yoga, read books, watched movies. Now I need a job again. I want to do something I’m proud of. I want to keep this life I’ve cultivated outside of the traditional career. I’m terrified I will never be hired, that I’ve tarnished after these two years of living. Somehow doing the very things we’re on earth to do — create, try, experience — has hindered me. This fear is only being validated with every rejection letter in my inbox. It seems that I’m asking for too much. I don’t care that I’m young. The scope I’m looking through may be narrow but it’s all that I have.
Apr 18, 2025
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