I'm leaving intermodal logistics for an inside sales position at a larger company for more work-life balance. I've been doing this job for 8 years. I get calls and emails all the evening and night and even on my days offline. I am afraid. I don't know what to do with my free time now, so use to being in work mode that I forgot how to do life. Any suggestions?

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Thanks I did the side gig thing. I was a caregiver in the evenings, 5 evenings a week. I think I got lucky and was working for a wonderful family whose Patriarch had Alzheimer's disease. He was midstage, but someone came around him with a cold and 2 weeks later I watched him die peacefully at home surrounded by his gorgeous family. I got an offer for a new job a week later. I think the universe is telling me something...

Do something that's out of your comfort zone. Keep doing it until you either get good at it or discover the value in doing it (or both).

Take up a hobby. Also, maybe write down what interests you have and try to meet those one way or another.

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