Introversion/Extroversion and Work/Life Balance.
I wonder if, as an introvert, having to be so extroverted all day at work, has an impact on how much energy I do (or don't) have when I get home or on the weekends. Most of the time I tend to spend nights during the week alone. That's just how it is for me rather than because I'm turning down invitations to go out.
Which makes me re-think companies that tell you they try to encourage a healthy work/life balance. (Which I think in most cases is something they say but don't mean.)
If my work really believed in maintaining a healthy work/life balance they wouldn't ask for so much overtime. Let's forget about that for a moment. If they really cared they'd understand things that impact a person's performance. Where do people get their energy? It's not only about eating health and maintaining the right frame of mind.
I would tell you that spending so much time extroverted, as an introvert, is exhausting.
Maybe I just don't notice it as being anything other than ordinary because I don't remember what it feels like to have a job where I can work by myself most of the time and be extroverted less frequently.
To some degree a certain amount of extroversion was required in retail. It's definitely required at my current job on the phones. I've been doing that for so long...maybe it's something I could pull off if I needed to in the future. Eventually the silence would settle in and I'd be comfortable with that. If surrounded by other extroverts maybe they'd take notice and ask. Maybe they are the ones that act as if silence is bad. (Silence is an opportunity to focus.)
There was something a friend of mine said last week that stuck with me. (I wish I had more of an explanation.) About putting myself out there as much as I do for a neutral kind of person. (And finding anything about neutral people on the internet that doesn't have to do with Futurama or Dungeons and Dragons is...difficult.)
I kinda knew I put myself out there...pretty frequently, at least with my journal. That was the point of my very first journal, when I used one of those free websites at a place like Geocities or Angelfire. I wanted to basically log my thoughts, as they happened. If my mind wandered or meandered, so did the entry. If something jumped right out, like an animal or a person jumping into the middle of the street ahead of a moving vehicle then the entry should reflect that.
I've kept that same approach over the years. You can see it in how I write and my style (such as all of the excessive uses of parenthesis; case-in-point, must I really say more?) which tends to be long and drawn out. Most thoughts are short and cut-and-dry things that make great quotes. One thing leads to another and another and...yeah.
For some reason (Really? "Some reason"? I should know better; it's because it's related.) that leads me to think of something I recently recall reading on the INTJ sub-reddit about how apparently a common trait of INTJs is to say the very least amount possible like in response to questions. Why belabour the point? I feel like I tend to buck the trend on that one.
I don't want to re-examine the same statement a thousand times from different points of view hoping that looking at it from another new angle will finally provide me the epiphany that I've been waiting for.
I feel like that was tangent that left the end of this entry much further away from the beginning. Even though, in a way, it all tied itself together.
Bedtime, before I wax (poetically or not) on any longer.
Which makes me re-think companies that tell you they try to encourage a healthy work/life balance. (Which I think in most cases is something they say but don't mean.)
If my work really believed in maintaining a healthy work/life balance they wouldn't ask for so much overtime. Let's forget about that for a moment. If they really cared they'd understand things that impact a person's performance. Where do people get their energy? It's not only about eating health and maintaining the right frame of mind.
I would tell you that spending so much time extroverted, as an introvert, is exhausting.
Maybe I just don't notice it as being anything other than ordinary because I don't remember what it feels like to have a job where I can work by myself most of the time and be extroverted less frequently.
To some degree a certain amount of extroversion was required in retail. It's definitely required at my current job on the phones. I've been doing that for so long...maybe it's something I could pull off if I needed to in the future. Eventually the silence would settle in and I'd be comfortable with that. If surrounded by other extroverts maybe they'd take notice and ask. Maybe they are the ones that act as if silence is bad. (Silence is an opportunity to focus.)
There was something a friend of mine said last week that stuck with me. (I wish I had more of an explanation.) About putting myself out there as much as I do for a neutral kind of person. (And finding anything about neutral people on the internet that doesn't have to do with Futurama or Dungeons and Dragons is...difficult.)
I kinda knew I put myself out there...pretty frequently, at least with my journal. That was the point of my very first journal, when I used one of those free websites at a place like Geocities or Angelfire. I wanted to basically log my thoughts, as they happened. If my mind wandered or meandered, so did the entry. If something jumped right out, like an animal or a person jumping into the middle of the street ahead of a moving vehicle then the entry should reflect that.
I've kept that same approach over the years. You can see it in how I write and my style (such as all of the excessive uses of parenthesis; case-in-point, must I really say more?) which tends to be long and drawn out. Most thoughts are short and cut-and-dry things that make great quotes. One thing leads to another and another and...yeah.
For some reason (Really? "Some reason"? I should know better; it's because it's related.) that leads me to think of something I recently recall reading on the INTJ sub-reddit about how apparently a common trait of INTJs is to say the very least amount possible like in response to questions. Why belabour the point? I feel like I tend to buck the trend on that one.
I don't want to re-examine the same statement a thousand times from different points of view hoping that looking at it from another new angle will finally provide me the epiphany that I've been waiting for.
I feel like that was tangent that left the end of this entry much further away from the beginning. Even though, in a way, it all tied itself together.
Bedtime, before I wax (poetically or not) on any longer.