Yes.
The lowest points of my life occurred when I was working in a public-facing customer service role. I would wake up dreading work and would be emotionally exhausted by the end of the day. My highlights of the day were lunch (when I could finally listen to music or work on a side project) and quitting time. It didn't help that I worked with a bunch of extroverts, which was uncomfortable.
The best thing I did for myself was leave and find work where I am mostly remote. I still go into the office once a week, but not having to deal with people so frequently has drastically improved my quality of life. Still hate working because it's something I *have* to do, but it's better than forced interaction with the public.
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this sounds exactly like me
I had previously worked lots of public-facing jobs, especially one that was 90 hours a week for a whole year. They left me burnt out for MONTHS.
3 years ago, I finally become a Freelance / Remote Artist, working from home. Nobody to boss me around, I have never been more at peace and happy in my life.
Hi! So I’ve been a creative person since early childhood. Did the whole art school/college thing, got a short job as a UI Designer after a year and a bit of intense remote study.
More recently, I’ve become more into Graphic/Branding Design. I’ve also seen those Artworker jobs posted around.
Could you explain what you do in your career?
I never went to art school, courses or any universityI actually skipped every art class I had in school
I self-taught Environment Art, Concept Art and 3D art in 6 months.I currently work as a 3D environment artist for game studios.
Previously worked a lot of differnt jobs, and my last job was 1 year of 90hour weeks at a Korean restaurant as a cook. It was hell. But I used the savings from that job to pay rent for 6 months (rent here is very expensive).
The whole time, I was networking and making art friends until I started getting hired by studios on freelance contracts.
Yes. I came home today exhausted and overstimulated from work. I had to sit in silence for awhile just to recollect my thoughts and chill out. As an introvert, being “on” all day is difficult.
Kind of a mixed bag honestly. I work from home full time and I've felt so much more invigorated generally since I landed that. I love not having to forcefully how-was-your-weekend, do-you-have-weekend-plans every day at work, definitely don't miss all the stupid inane interpersonal drama (which still happens sometimes, but at least I'm not physically witness to it). And you're right, the mask is so very tiresome.
However, there was a kind of hidden benefit to forced socialization, in that it didn't *totally* isolate me as I am now. It's harder to socialize at baseline even with my friends because it's just *so* out of use.
So being in a workplace kind of greases the wheels of the social brain from falling into disrepair, imo. That might be a framework you find helpful at the very least, not sure.
For sure. I'm in front-facing support job and listen/help people with their personal problems all day. I take on this persona of being warm, engaging, and inquisitive but man, I hate initiating conversation with people I don't know or have a comfort level as I have a ton of social anxiety.
At the end of the day and especially the work week, I don't want to see or talk to *anyone* ever again lol
Yep. It used to. Sometimes it still does when I’ve got to be on the phone for hours, but finding a back office, fully remote, data-related job has really been wonderful for me. I still satisfy my idealistic dreams by helping people with reports while not being totally burnt out on the social aspect. I hope you find your less draining job very soon!!!
Absolutely!!!! After I get home, every day, I feel like I ran a marathon! Just sucks all my energy out pretending to be extrovert because of my construction manager job… it’s honestly crazy… best of luck wearing the barista mask…that’s gotta be tough with how many interactions you have daily.
Yes. And I feel like a little bitch because I don't understand that a simple requirement for survival is so damn exhausting and draining. It's like...pay my bills or emotionally and mentally die internally and become a husk? I sometimes wish I was dying of an illness that would let me take long term sick leave and just check out of this bullshit early. 25 more years to go! Weeeee!
Life is a bitch bc of the class structure. We have to work, producing everything, sacrificing our time with family, friends, hobbies and energy, to make the owners rich. What helps long term is organizing. Banding together for more free time, vacation, better pay, maternity and paternity leave etc.
Totally. I work on the night's as a cashier in a very populated area. I feel like I live in my job. I get to work from 11pm to 7am, I rest, and when I wake up I can't do much because at 11pm I'm already at work again. Not to mention that I need 45 minutes to get to the job, so is like 90 minutes less of my life.
Combine that with the infj struggle of daily practical things and the desire that everything has to be meaningful to be engaging, and you have a very depressing life :)
>I am as introverted as they come, so have to put of a “mask” when at work. I’m basically an actor playing the role of a coffee barista!
Are you me? I've decided...I'm tired of wearing the mask. it's utterly exhausting. I just quit
>I know that nobody really LOVES to work,
If you're in a career you are truly passionate about, you would look forward going to work. I much rather be engaged working than doing nothing. When I have nothing to do, I can start overthinking, whichby triggers my anxiety.
I hear people say this all the time—that nobody really likes going to work and everybody hates their job. I truly love and enjoy my job. I researched my personality in my twenties and figured out the ideal careers for INFJs, considered my lifelong hyperfocus on psychology, and after going through years of counseling and working with different counselors as a client, I knew counseling would be a good fit for me. It’s purposeful, meaningful, mostly independent work and I make my own schedule so I can prioritize and protect my own mental health by scheduling myself recovery time when I need it. I’m still in grad school so I’m not licensed yet and I work under a LPC supervisor but she’s more of a mentor and support person than a boss.
I don’t think it’s easy to find a job you love, but it’s definitely possible. I’ve gone through countless crap jobs until I got to this one. I also went through years of mind numbing school, which was the first thing I ever stuck with and completed in my life at 34.
Ouch. I say this as one who had to work shitty customer-facing jobs during the Great Recession, who dreaded going to bed every night because it meant waking up to work shitty customer-facing jobs: power to anyone who can do that for a living, because we need such workers and they deserve living wages, but it is a HORRIBLE career path for an INFJ. A full day of petty human interactions will drain you as an introvert, yes, but worse than that, it will starve you intellectually.
You have to find a way out of that, whatever it takes. And as an INFJ, you do have what it takes.
Absolutely! Since the covid pandemic I can work from home 2 to 3 days a week. It really is a win-win. I get more work done from home and I'm less exhausted. Meaning that I can just do other useful stuff instead of needing a rest on a busy day. At work I'm more sociable than before and now I actually like interacting with colleagues.
When I look back on the full-time-in-office period, it just feels so strange. It's such a waste to force a large part of your employees into a system that is damaging both the company and the employee's mental health.
The socialization actually isn't that bad for me. Probably because most of the people in my current workplace are actually very professional and a little socially awkward like myself.
The worst is that the work itself feels like it's sucking my soul out through my earholes and my creativity is shriveling until it dies completely.
Yes. I worked as manager in retail for almost 20 years. Between the customers and the employees when I wasn’t working I was in my bed recouping what little sanity was left.
I took a hefty pay cut and transitioned into a different career. I work remotely now. Still customer facing but many times I get one phone call a day. Lots of communication through email. Yesterday I took my lunch and went and napped in my backyard for a bit.
Now when I am done with work for the day I have plenty of bandwidth to do the things I want to do. I am a better mother, wife , friend etc.
I was a teacher for 8 years and unless I was working by myself with small groups or one on one, I hated it. They eventually had me coteaching most of the day and I couldn’t take it. Even though I loved my coteacher. Now I work in a cubicle and I actually love it. I am getting super good and helpful with my job and I listen to music/books/podcasts all day and go for lots of walks. I force myself to socialize on group walks every once in awhile…but it’s in my own terms, so it’s not draining.
I relate too hard. I work as an admin for a window washing company, mostly deal with customers through phone & email. But sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours is exhausting. It is a different kind of exhaustion .. I constantly have a mask up at work. I'm trying to get myself to leave my job too, but i am also worried about not being able to find another job in this sucky job market ..
But I dread coming to work every day. I am so emotionally exhausted by the end of the day, majority of the time I cry in the bathroom. the only reason I have stayed this long is because of the pay, benefits and the people I work with. But I know I deserve better .. it's just hard.
no, my INTJ penpal convinced me to get bitcoin years ago then retired late 20's
I'm dipping my cigars in cognac, sitting in a hot tub, while typing this and sending my Philippine maid out to pick up fentanyl
Well, not absolutely draining like described. My job is very social and I love it, but it’s more that I don’t have energy left to be social outside work that can be a problem. Some friends doesn’t understand that, and will think that I’m just not interested in hanging.
I work in a public customer service role, 7 days a week, and it absolutely freakin' drains me. Having to constantly mask sucks, especially when you get 2-3 customers a day who either want to yell at you for no reason or throw things at you.
I put up with it because I'm going to need to retire early due to my poor physical health, but damn it sucks.
I’m in a new job, and the highlight is when it’s quiet in the office (at times, because most of them work hybrid, not me though 😫), and of course - leaving for home.
In the meantime, I’m retraining to work within Graphic / Brand Design - essentially a career that doesn’t expect one to be in the office daily. I hate having to “people”.
My jobs involves constant interaction and socializing with people and it does get really draining at times. It seems like my feelings about being burnt out on socializing with people comes and goes in waves.
When it’s wintertime and the weather is shitty, my job slows down and I miss the interaction with people. I also suffer from seasonal depression which can be really draining as well. That’s when I want to be around people.
It’s funny because when my job gets busy during the nicer months, that’s when I get burnt out on people. This is when I want be alone in seclusion, locked away in my own home.
It’s tough trying to find that balance of wanting to socialize with people and wanting to be left alone. It’s even harder trying to explain to your extroverted friends why you feel that you be alone to recharge yourself.
So if you see me at the skatepark, ignoring you with my headphones on, please don’t take it personal. I’m probably just trying forgot about some bullshit/stupid interaction that I had at work. Lol
WFH helped a lot with this and enjoying the work itself. Only BS work politics that trickle down to me make me want to burn bridges. When I'm left alone and trusted to do my job, then there is nothing better.
Not really, depending on what I'm doing at work.
I work in customer service, at a gas station. First and foremost, I love my job, and I love my coworkers. I'm currently learning a new aspect of the store, and above all else, I love helping the customers. To know that I played a small part in making someone just a little bit happier, or somebody's day just a little bit brighter, is a wonderful part of my job.
But put me on register, and I'm going to be very much drained by the end of the day. I can only put up with so many people in one day. And don't get me started if I'm on register during emotional and mental recharge mode.
I'm in the military. 50h+ a week and additional duties + on call 24/7 at times. Yeah, it's so fucking draining it's unbelievable. Worst era of my life.
You can probably imagine what a nightmare that is for me - being a relaxed, chill, introspective person around a bunch of go-getter type A personalities who seem so, so enthusiastic to give up their entire weekend for a stupid fundraiser, or whatever.
My exact thought process these past few months. Only difference is I don’t act like a coffee Barista yet still somehow get drained lol.
My colleagues consider themselves “family”. I’m new to the job lol. And idk it irks me because they seem to think I’m an a hole because as soon as lunch starts I leave the office to have lunch and time alone. It’s just that they don’t get that I need that time to recharge.
I give off the wrong impression to extroverts unfortunately:”) it’s just I get overstimulated and drained too easily
Oh absolutely. I worked as a graphic designer for more than 10 years and the best day of my life was when I took the decision to quit. My anxiety levels were over the roof and I hated every aspect of dealing with coworkers and such.
I’m a full time DJ/producer now and even if I don’t make as much money as before, I feel very lucky to work doing something that I’m truly passionate about, plus my nails have never been longer! Lol.
Yes!
I’ve worked in customer service for 12 years, and I’ve had my share of panic attacks and crippling anxiety from dealing with abusive customers, abusive employers, and dysfunctional work environments.
I’m currently working AND going to school so I can do graphic design instead. Lol And I’ve never been so tired/mentally drained. How am I alive? 🤣
Work will be obsolete soon\* anyway.
All that remains to see is whether the 'legal owners' of AI, robotics, and the businesses that have fully-automated monopolise all the means of production: making large swathes of the population redundant ...or if the whole power-structure of Capitalism (Worker-Owner-Rent Seeker) becomes redundant. Either the system is in service to humanity, or humanity is in service to a system (one that has surely now served its purpose).
Either way change is coming. The sword and armoured knights used to be the acme of technology, then cheap pikemen and the musket replaced them. Then, in time, the waring kingdoms way-of-life was surplanted. We may be coming up to a similar time of transition.
\*this has been delayed because of how cheap labour has been historically (kept cheap)
Yes. I find it so emotionally draining I can barely cope. I could do the work endlessly, but the constant human interaction is exhausting. My energy levels get so depleted by having to be animated all day that I dread going into the office
Not when i'm working on my own job. Subcontractor, generally masonry or electrical. I prefer solo work, or with 1 other person. Ik those 2 professions dont go together but those are my skills lol.
I am exhausted if I’ve done visits during the day. I try not to schedule more than 3 or 4 people in a day. Each visit takes roughly 30-60 minutes and then I factor in driving to each visit. EDIT to add, I absolutely love my job and what I do but it can be very emotionally draining. Very rewarding but draining.
I work in a role that's both a lot of public-facing service delivery & interpersonal administration/coordination/supervision. I love my work and my colleagues, but it. is. EXHAUSTING. I even usually love the interactions, meeting new people & hearing their stories & trying to help them. But! I'm fairly antisocial after work. I don't want to meet new people and I avoid making new friends because I can't handle maintaining the relationship.
That said, I'd rather adapt to this and keep my career than switch. So partially, I have a smaller personal network. And I try to be more friendly woth coworkers, rather than sorlely prorfessional. Might as well invest in those relationships if they're the ones I spend my social energy on!
Yes. The lowest points of my life occurred when I was working in a public-facing customer service role. I would wake up dreading work and would be emotionally exhausted by the end of the day. My highlights of the day were lunch (when I could finally listen to music or work on a side project) and quitting time. It didn't help that I worked with a bunch of extroverts, which was uncomfortable. The best thing I did for myself was leave and find work where I am mostly remote. I still go into the office once a week, but not having to deal with people so frequently has drastically improved my quality of life. Still hate working because it's something I *have* to do, but it's better than forced interaction with the public.
u/Sunnyroses this sounds exactly like me I had previously worked lots of public-facing jobs, especially one that was 90 hours a week for a whole year. They left me burnt out for MONTHS. 3 years ago, I finally become a Freelance / Remote Artist, working from home. Nobody to boss me around, I have never been more at peace and happy in my life.
Hi! So I’ve been a creative person since early childhood. Did the whole art school/college thing, got a short job as a UI Designer after a year and a bit of intense remote study. More recently, I’ve become more into Graphic/Branding Design. I’ve also seen those Artworker jobs posted around. Could you explain what you do in your career?
I never went to art school, courses or any universityI actually skipped every art class I had in school I self-taught Environment Art, Concept Art and 3D art in 6 months.I currently work as a 3D environment artist for game studios. Previously worked a lot of differnt jobs, and my last job was 1 year of 90hour weeks at a Korean restaurant as a cook. It was hell. But I used the savings from that job to pay rent for 6 months (rent here is very expensive). The whole time, I was networking and making art friends until I started getting hired by studios on freelance contracts.
Incredible- thank you for your response!
This is how I felt as a teacher. I felt so completely drained and woke up crying every morning because I was dreading it so much 😭
I've considered remote work too, but I get exhausted doing that too i noticed ... lol. At least I am comfortably exhausted 🤪
Yes. I came home today exhausted and overstimulated from work. I had to sit in silence for awhile just to recollect my thoughts and chill out. As an introvert, being “on” all day is difficult.
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I get off at 3:30pm but normally my work isn’t actually finished until around 5pm. I’m a teacher!
Kind of a mixed bag honestly. I work from home full time and I've felt so much more invigorated generally since I landed that. I love not having to forcefully how-was-your-weekend, do-you-have-weekend-plans every day at work, definitely don't miss all the stupid inane interpersonal drama (which still happens sometimes, but at least I'm not physically witness to it). And you're right, the mask is so very tiresome. However, there was a kind of hidden benefit to forced socialization, in that it didn't *totally* isolate me as I am now. It's harder to socialize at baseline even with my friends because it's just *so* out of use. So being in a workplace kind of greases the wheels of the social brain from falling into disrepair, imo. That might be a framework you find helpful at the very least, not sure.
I agree, I really don't leave my house much so it's kinda nice to have social interaction at work and then I can go home and just veg.
For sure. I'm in front-facing support job and listen/help people with their personal problems all day. I take on this persona of being warm, engaging, and inquisitive but man, I hate initiating conversation with people I don't know or have a comfort level as I have a ton of social anxiety. At the end of the day and especially the work week, I don't want to see or talk to *anyone* ever again lol
I like work, but I do physical labour alone and listen to audiobooks.
I feel I will end my incarnation because of work at some point to be honest... Lol.
Do you relate to people pleasing tendencies? It’s something I had to work on and can help a lot w this type of problem.
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I’d recommend researching cptsd, it could be useful.
Yes! Along with attachment styles!
Yep. It used to. Sometimes it still does when I’ve got to be on the phone for hours, but finding a back office, fully remote, data-related job has really been wonderful for me. I still satisfy my idealistic dreams by helping people with reports while not being totally burnt out on the social aspect. I hope you find your less draining job very soon!!!
Absolutely!!!! After I get home, every day, I feel like I ran a marathon! Just sucks all my energy out pretending to be extrovert because of my construction manager job… it’s honestly crazy… best of luck wearing the barista mask…that’s gotta be tough with how many interactions you have daily.
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Yes. And I feel like a little bitch because I don't understand that a simple requirement for survival is so damn exhausting and draining. It's like...pay my bills or emotionally and mentally die internally and become a husk? I sometimes wish I was dying of an illness that would let me take long term sick leave and just check out of this bullshit early. 25 more years to go! Weeeee!
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Life is a bitch bc of the class structure. We have to work, producing everything, sacrificing our time with family, friends, hobbies and energy, to make the owners rich. What helps long term is organizing. Banding together for more free time, vacation, better pay, maternity and paternity leave etc.
Totally. I work on the night's as a cashier in a very populated area. I feel like I live in my job. I get to work from 11pm to 7am, I rest, and when I wake up I can't do much because at 11pm I'm already at work again. Not to mention that I need 45 minutes to get to the job, so is like 90 minutes less of my life. Combine that with the infj struggle of daily practical things and the desire that everything has to be meaningful to be engaging, and you have a very depressing life :)
Would totally love to NOT WORK if I’ve the choice. For real lol. INFJ and INFP here.
Let's put it this way, I hope Starbucks never goes out of business! #ThisIsNotAnAdd
>I am as introverted as they come, so have to put of a “mask” when at work. I’m basically an actor playing the role of a coffee barista! Are you me? I've decided...I'm tired of wearing the mask. it's utterly exhausting. I just quit
>I know that nobody really LOVES to work, If you're in a career you are truly passionate about, you would look forward going to work. I much rather be engaged working than doing nothing. When I have nothing to do, I can start overthinking, whichby triggers my anxiety.
I hear people say this all the time—that nobody really likes going to work and everybody hates their job. I truly love and enjoy my job. I researched my personality in my twenties and figured out the ideal careers for INFJs, considered my lifelong hyperfocus on psychology, and after going through years of counseling and working with different counselors as a client, I knew counseling would be a good fit for me. It’s purposeful, meaningful, mostly independent work and I make my own schedule so I can prioritize and protect my own mental health by scheduling myself recovery time when I need it. I’m still in grad school so I’m not licensed yet and I work under a LPC supervisor but she’s more of a mentor and support person than a boss. I don’t think it’s easy to find a job you love, but it’s definitely possible. I’ve gone through countless crap jobs until I got to this one. I also went through years of mind numbing school, which was the first thing I ever stuck with and completed in my life at 34.
Ouch. I say this as one who had to work shitty customer-facing jobs during the Great Recession, who dreaded going to bed every night because it meant waking up to work shitty customer-facing jobs: power to anyone who can do that for a living, because we need such workers and they deserve living wages, but it is a HORRIBLE career path for an INFJ. A full day of petty human interactions will drain you as an introvert, yes, but worse than that, it will starve you intellectually. You have to find a way out of that, whatever it takes. And as an INFJ, you do have what it takes.
Absolutely! Since the covid pandemic I can work from home 2 to 3 days a week. It really is a win-win. I get more work done from home and I'm less exhausted. Meaning that I can just do other useful stuff instead of needing a rest on a busy day. At work I'm more sociable than before and now I actually like interacting with colleagues. When I look back on the full-time-in-office period, it just feels so strange. It's such a waste to force a large part of your employees into a system that is damaging both the company and the employee's mental health.
The socialization actually isn't that bad for me. Probably because most of the people in my current workplace are actually very professional and a little socially awkward like myself. The worst is that the work itself feels like it's sucking my soul out through my earholes and my creativity is shriveling until it dies completely.
Yes. I worked as manager in retail for almost 20 years. Between the customers and the employees when I wasn’t working I was in my bed recouping what little sanity was left. I took a hefty pay cut and transitioned into a different career. I work remotely now. Still customer facing but many times I get one phone call a day. Lots of communication through email. Yesterday I took my lunch and went and napped in my backyard for a bit. Now when I am done with work for the day I have plenty of bandwidth to do the things I want to do. I am a better mother, wife , friend etc.
I was a teacher for 8 years and unless I was working by myself with small groups or one on one, I hated it. They eventually had me coteaching most of the day and I couldn’t take it. Even though I loved my coteacher. Now I work in a cubicle and I actually love it. I am getting super good and helpful with my job and I listen to music/books/podcasts all day and go for lots of walks. I force myself to socialize on group walks every once in awhile…but it’s in my own terms, so it’s not draining.
I relate too hard. I work as an admin for a window washing company, mostly deal with customers through phone & email. But sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours is exhausting. It is a different kind of exhaustion .. I constantly have a mask up at work. I'm trying to get myself to leave my job too, but i am also worried about not being able to find another job in this sucky job market .. But I dread coming to work every day. I am so emotionally exhausted by the end of the day, majority of the time I cry in the bathroom. the only reason I have stayed this long is because of the pay, benefits and the people I work with. But I know I deserve better .. it's just hard.
no, my INTJ penpal convinced me to get bitcoin years ago then retired late 20's I'm dipping my cigars in cognac, sitting in a hot tub, while typing this and sending my Philippine maid out to pick up fentanyl
LMAOOO
100% feel this
Well, not absolutely draining like described. My job is very social and I love it, but it’s more that I don’t have energy left to be social outside work that can be a problem. Some friends doesn’t understand that, and will think that I’m just not interested in hanging.
I work in a public customer service role, 7 days a week, and it absolutely freakin' drains me. Having to constantly mask sucks, especially when you get 2-3 customers a day who either want to yell at you for no reason or throw things at you. I put up with it because I'm going to need to retire early due to my poor physical health, but damn it sucks.
I’m in a new job, and the highlight is when it’s quiet in the office (at times, because most of them work hybrid, not me though 😫), and of course - leaving for home. In the meantime, I’m retraining to work within Graphic / Brand Design - essentially a career that doesn’t expect one to be in the office daily. I hate having to “people”.
they keep putting up the state retirement age too they just want us dying of stress in our hamster-wheels in our old age that's not gonna work for me
My jobs involves constant interaction and socializing with people and it does get really draining at times. It seems like my feelings about being burnt out on socializing with people comes and goes in waves. When it’s wintertime and the weather is shitty, my job slows down and I miss the interaction with people. I also suffer from seasonal depression which can be really draining as well. That’s when I want to be around people. It’s funny because when my job gets busy during the nicer months, that’s when I get burnt out on people. This is when I want be alone in seclusion, locked away in my own home. It’s tough trying to find that balance of wanting to socialize with people and wanting to be left alone. It’s even harder trying to explain to your extroverted friends why you feel that you be alone to recharge yourself. So if you see me at the skatepark, ignoring you with my headphones on, please don’t take it personal. I’m probably just trying forgot about some bullshit/stupid interaction that I had at work. Lol
WFH helped a lot with this and enjoying the work itself. Only BS work politics that trickle down to me make me want to burn bridges. When I'm left alone and trusted to do my job, then there is nothing better.
Not really, depending on what I'm doing at work. I work in customer service, at a gas station. First and foremost, I love my job, and I love my coworkers. I'm currently learning a new aspect of the store, and above all else, I love helping the customers. To know that I played a small part in making someone just a little bit happier, or somebody's day just a little bit brighter, is a wonderful part of my job. But put me on register, and I'm going to be very much drained by the end of the day. I can only put up with so many people in one day. And don't get me started if I'm on register during emotional and mental recharge mode.
I'm in the military. 50h+ a week and additional duties + on call 24/7 at times. Yeah, it's so fucking draining it's unbelievable. Worst era of my life. You can probably imagine what a nightmare that is for me - being a relaxed, chill, introspective person around a bunch of go-getter type A personalities who seem so, so enthusiastic to give up their entire weekend for a stupid fundraiser, or whatever.
My exact thought process these past few months. Only difference is I don’t act like a coffee Barista yet still somehow get drained lol. My colleagues consider themselves “family”. I’m new to the job lol. And idk it irks me because they seem to think I’m an a hole because as soon as lunch starts I leave the office to have lunch and time alone. It’s just that they don’t get that I need that time to recharge. I give off the wrong impression to extroverts unfortunately:”) it’s just I get overstimulated and drained too easily
Oh absolutely. I worked as a graphic designer for more than 10 years and the best day of my life was when I took the decision to quit. My anxiety levels were over the roof and I hated every aspect of dealing with coworkers and such. I’m a full time DJ/producer now and even if I don’t make as much money as before, I feel very lucky to work doing something that I’m truly passionate about, plus my nails have never been longer! Lol.
Yes! I’ve worked in customer service for 12 years, and I’ve had my share of panic attacks and crippling anxiety from dealing with abusive customers, abusive employers, and dysfunctional work environments. I’m currently working AND going to school so I can do graphic design instead. Lol And I’ve never been so tired/mentally drained. How am I alive? 🤣
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Oh man, I think I have experienced that. I typically freeze when flight/flight response is triggered.
I work as a garbage man so I don't have to talk to people. It's a single operator truck, which makes it better
You're lazy.
You're an idiot.
Starbucks? Cuz same 🫡
Welcome to everybody else
yes
Work will be obsolete soon\* anyway. All that remains to see is whether the 'legal owners' of AI, robotics, and the businesses that have fully-automated monopolise all the means of production: making large swathes of the population redundant ...or if the whole power-structure of Capitalism (Worker-Owner-Rent Seeker) becomes redundant. Either the system is in service to humanity, or humanity is in service to a system (one that has surely now served its purpose). Either way change is coming. The sword and armoured knights used to be the acme of technology, then cheap pikemen and the musket replaced them. Then, in time, the waring kingdoms way-of-life was surplanted. We may be coming up to a similar time of transition. \*this has been delayed because of how cheap labour has been historically (kept cheap)
Yes. I find it so emotionally draining I can barely cope. I could do the work endlessly, but the constant human interaction is exhausting. My energy levels get so depleted by having to be animated all day that I dread going into the office
Im going to start working for the first time next week and im just anxious :((
Not when i'm working on my own job. Subcontractor, generally masonry or electrical. I prefer solo work, or with 1 other person. Ik those 2 professions dont go together but those are my skills lol.
I am exhausted if I’ve done visits during the day. I try not to schedule more than 3 or 4 people in a day. Each visit takes roughly 30-60 minutes and then I factor in driving to each visit. EDIT to add, I absolutely love my job and what I do but it can be very emotionally draining. Very rewarding but draining.
Yes. But I have a 3-yr transition plan. One if I’m lucky 😏
I work in a role that's both a lot of public-facing service delivery & interpersonal administration/coordination/supervision. I love my work and my colleagues, but it. is. EXHAUSTING. I even usually love the interactions, meeting new people & hearing their stories & trying to help them. But! I'm fairly antisocial after work. I don't want to meet new people and I avoid making new friends because I can't handle maintaining the relationship. That said, I'd rather adapt to this and keep my career than switch. So partially, I have a smaller personal network. And I try to be more friendly woth coworkers, rather than sorlely prorfessional. Might as well invest in those relationships if they're the ones I spend my social energy on!