I have never felt the post holiday blues in any other job as i do in this one. My directors routine novel length monday morning emails (5 today) bring me anxiety. Sadness today. Anyone else?

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What bothers me is that we are constantly looking for ways to deal with this anxiety (me included, severely). When we should really not have it in the first place and we do b/c this job is nuts. You never know what you’ll wake up to on Monday. It never ends.

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If i can make it three i might try.

I unfortunately had an attitude most of today because being back at work reminded me how much I’m not appreciated on my current project. Definitely ready for Christmas vacation 😔

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