I'm free!
I quit my job today.
I walked out of my supervisor's office this morning feeling better than I have since I started working there 15 months ago. The stress started from day 1 and it fills the place like radiation. It ended up being just as damaging to my physical and mental health, too. The advice I kept getting was, "You have to learn not to care," but that isn't in me. I had reasons for sticking around as long as I did--the economy (no jobs), Dad's death (needed to focus on family), taking courses (I'll get a better job rather than just a different one)--but then something happens and you know that's it. The something happened last Wednesday and I'll be gone sometime during the first week in May.
So now that I'm not in a state of perpetual anger and accompanying physical discomfort (that might take a bit of time to completely ease), I have high hopes for my interest returning for a few of the things that I love to do. Reading--something other than porn. Writing--okay, that might just be porn. Needlework--might need to make some money in the near future (I do have a box full of stuff....) Japanese--I want to do more than just run vocab drills at renshuu.org during my lunch hour. Guitar--I have been playing the same pieces for two months, must move on! The yoga is going GREAT! Love the teachers at my new studio and have made it at least 3 times a week for the past six weeks.
How did I ever think I had time to go to work?!
ETA: I don't have my "Junsu, God of Joy" icon over here, but this Junsu icon makes me just as happy.
I walked out of my supervisor's office this morning feeling better than I have since I started working there 15 months ago. The stress started from day 1 and it fills the place like radiation. It ended up being just as damaging to my physical and mental health, too. The advice I kept getting was, "You have to learn not to care," but that isn't in me. I had reasons for sticking around as long as I did--the economy (no jobs), Dad's death (needed to focus on family), taking courses (I'll get a better job rather than just a different one)--but then something happens and you know that's it. The something happened last Wednesday and I'll be gone sometime during the first week in May.
So now that I'm not in a state of perpetual anger and accompanying physical discomfort (that might take a bit of time to completely ease), I have high hopes for my interest returning for a few of the things that I love to do. Reading--something other than porn. Writing--okay, that might just be porn. Needlework--might need to make some money in the near future (I do have a box full of stuff....) Japanese--I want to do more than just run vocab drills at renshuu.org during my lunch hour. Guitar--I have been playing the same pieces for two months, must move on! The yoga is going GREAT! Love the teachers at my new studio and have made it at least 3 times a week for the past six weeks.
How did I ever think I had time to go to work?!
ETA: I don't have my "Junsu, God of Joy" icon over here, but this Junsu icon makes me just as happy.