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It’s okay to not feel okay sometimes. Right now the world is changing drastically, even astrologically we are ending a 26,000 year cycle! The best you can do now is just sit back and see where the wave takes you. The most important skill you can have is adaptability.
Try to make lists of what you want in life, not things that would make sense to society, but what you would really want. Then write down what you love about what you already have. Sometimes it’s also good to just take a full 24h and be super sad: watch sad films, cry, be the most miserable you can. Things are going to be okay!
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Don’t worry too much please. In the grand scheme of things, this is just a short term blip. We are all feeling it.
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OP, let me first say I see you and hear you. This sucks and your anxiety is both understandable and reasonable. The good news - with apologies for the trite phrase - is that even in normal times, life / work / culture moves a lot slower than ad land thinks. You will be okay, I promise. Feel free to DM if you want to vent / rant / neither :)
OP - I was laid off in April, and feel the same way as you many days. And then some days I’m okay. But reading these responses is such a great reminder, and they are all very true. I believe it was a bit of a gift. I can’t imagine being “spared” and still working at my toxic agency right now. I know I’d be miserable. It gives us all a very unique opportunity to have a pause (although forced), to get to think about what it is we really want. To think about life for a bit in the most real way. And I truly know we will be okay wherever our paths take us. I really believe things happen as they are meant to. It may sound silly, but I know in my gut that my exit from the company I had been at for over a decade (and was loyal to a fault) was a result of my grandfather looking out for me (he passed away a few years ago). I know it will lead me to where I’m meant to go. Maybe it won’t have the biggest clients or the most money, but it will be a better quality of life and I will be happier. That’s what I truly believe.
So true. I can’t imagine how’d I be working for my toxic CD over zoom.
Give yourself some compassion. you’re living through an absolutely monumental shift in our lives. We’re living amidst a current, global pandemic of a scale we’ve never dealt with before, global social and political unrest, an economic down turn, etc. No one is looking at you or anyone else and saying, with all that going on, “so why didn’t you teach yourself Premiere Pro?!”. The biggest thing you gotta do is take care of yourself so you can come out of this situation healthy and creative.
If therapy has taught me one thing, it’s to stop Should-ing yourself. Don’t tell yourself things that you Should do, because it sets you up for a cycle of shaming yourself, punishing yourself, stressing, and feeling forced into doing something. Have SMART goals, and think of them as things you want to do versus things you have to do (or else you’ll be irrelevant, etc.). And if you still don’t want to do it? that’s ok. 2020 is fucked up and we just gotta live thru it, dude.
Thanks everyone. It’s a good reminder we are all going through the same stuff. Some days it’s kind of nice,but some days it becomes too much. I’m home with a toddler all day too which makes it hard to find time to invest in myself. Whew. This is crazy.
Try to learn a new skill, either personal or professional. For example, Photoshop, coding, cooking, a foreign language - something that interests you that you never had time for while working. There are a lot of paid courses you can access for free if you have a library card - I’ve used Lynda.com through the nyc library website, and pretty much every topic has YouTube tutorials. It will lift your mood to acquire a new skill, and it might make you more employable when things improve.
OP lots of great ideas and wonderful support in this thread. I hope it helps.
My only add on is believe in you and do you. You got this!
Get to work. You’ll feel better. As a creative, if you don’t have an outlet for your energy, there’s a tendency for the snake to start eating its tail. You can write, so start writing.
This is a good point.