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Time to take a week off and let the PTSD synapses realign
You definitely need a break. Take some time off and touch lots of grass.
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I once had coffee with a lawyer and made an offhand remark/apology about how annoying it was that I was getting pinged on my phone incessantly for the duration of our chat. She was like, “Oh, I love it when people message me. It means they want to talk to me.” On the one hand, I was like, “What a great attitude”, and on the other, I felt like I was talking to an alien.
The modern digital workplace is only designed for people like that. It makes no accommodations for any other types of people, and for those people, many of whom are equally talented, it’s a certain kind of hell.
Take some vacation time and fully unplug. Reflect. Come back fresh. If you ultimately decide that a model of work comprising days chained to your PC or phone isn’t for you, I hear that trade professions are less of that, and far more impervious to AI disruption.
Well said AM1.
Check your bills vs your savings account. This always turns my attitude right around from annoyed to grateful to be working.
Pessimist: It can’t get any worse than this.
Optimist: Yes it can!
Out of curiosity, are you remote all or a majority of the time? I've noticed that my tolerance for random messages, calls, emails, etc. has gone down drastically while working fully remote. Once I'm actually in a call with someone I feel better about the exchange, but being remote creates this really high level of initial tension I can't seem to get over. Every message or call, my immediate thought is, "what the hell does this person want....." Which is why I'm looking to go back in office because I've realized how toxic it is for my own mental health.
Take some time off. Take step back, reexamine the larger picture of what you want your life to be. You’re more than just your job. I think these feelings are telling you made work too big of a component of you life. You work to live, you don’t live to work.
Someone definitely needs some PTO