Death Is Not an Option - What gets you through your day?

[blithescribe]

Lifelines to the outside world. We all - well, the vast majority of us, I’d imagine - have something we do during work hours to maintain our sanity by reminding us of our real lives, our passions, those things we do outside of working hours. Even those of us who are lucky enough to like our jobs - me! - heck, even those of us lucky enough to have

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[blithescribe]

None of these would be easy for me to give up personally - except access to my personal e-mail account, but only because I already don't have that at my current office. I won't cheat at my own game by picking that one. *grins*

Access to my own music would probably be the easiest thing for me to give up, because although the my ipod and the radio are good sanity boosters, I find that I personally need contact with people and my the inne working of my own mind more.

My two strongest lifelines are brief personal phone calls with Mortgaged almost every day and reading during lunch breaks away from my desk. I don't have to have the latter every day, but that spoon starts to become awfully appealing if I go for more than say a week and a half without a good reading lunch break.

[spiritdancing]

I don't often take personal calls. But, since the vast majority of my day is spent hearing a phone ring or having a phone attached to my ear, a few less occurances wouldn't be a big deal...even though I do love to hear the voices of my loved ones.

[blithescribe]

That makes sense.

What is the one lifeline you wouldn't give up? - it doesn't have to be one the list. I'm just curious and nosy :)

[spiritdancing]

Probably photos or music.

[kawika]

There's no way I'm giving up music. I could actually do without LJ or the internet. LJ is a little more specific and I have more of a specific interest in it. So LJ wins that battle.

There are plenty of times when I need a little break from the office environment, in general, so daydreaming and going away for a few minutes is very useful in that regard. I could even do without personal phone calls, because most of the business phone calls I get are people I like to talk to and even though we are business acquaintances, it goes just a touch deeper than that with a lot of my contacts, so I CAN vent in a general manner at times. Plus, my coworkers and I vent at each other throughout the day, so steam is blown off that way, as well.

[blithescribe]

It actually sounds like your work environment is a fairly healthy one with a lot of built-in support despite the inevitable backstabbers. I can really see now why you want it back so badly beyond just the general principal of the matter.

[kawika]

There are a lot of little things wrong with the environment and I've been known to take some of the athletes to task when they try and pull something on me. But, there are also some good people there and that's where my focus lies rather than on what's wrong with the place. If I kept my focus on the negatives, I'd be really miserable and what's the point of that?

Also, I worked very hard in school (did a program where I finished my master's in one year) to earn my degrees and subsequent certification for what I do. So, I'm doing what I went to school to do, which means I enjoy what I went to school for...or I wouldn't have gone to school for it. It's not extremely rare, but really, how many people are in a career that is exactly what they went to school for?

[blithescribe]

I think you're right and that it is extremely rare and also very cool to actually be working in the field you went to school for.

[hooloovooo]

I could probably give up short trips from my desk most easily, as I take very few as it is, other than going to the bathroom when necessary. I could probably give up music only a bit less easily, again because it is something that I rarely do on a regular basis.

LJ is probably my strongest lifeline, as I can connect with the most people that way and can best escape my work headspace for a while when I am personally interested in the people that are involved in what I am reading.

There is no way that I could possibly stop myself from daydreaming, it is a constant feature of my brain.

[blithescribe]

I'm right there with you on the LJ and and only somewhat less so on the daydreaming in that I do it a bit less, but I don't think I oculd give it up even if I tried.

And, truly, all of our "out of workday" experiences would be lesser somehow if you stopped having the ability to post some of your daydreams on LJ!

[sabah]

I read this wrong!

I couldn't ever give up access to personal e-mail!

I could give up photos of loved ones if I could still look at them on the internet! heh! CHEATING!

[blithescribe]

Breakin' the law, breakin' the law. *grins*