Stuck in a weird limbo where I want to leave my job more than anything, but grateful that I have one at all with all the layoffs in our industry. It’s a new kind of trapped. Anyone else in the same boat?

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Yes. So thankful for my paycheck, but mentally not in my job at all.

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Yes. It was terrible for a few weeks and then I just accepted it and gave up. If I could just not be working 70 hour weeks then I could probably survive the rest of the year. 🤞clients run out of emergency covid briefs soon.

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Big mood. I'm just treating it as a paycheck and getting my rocks off creatively elsewhere in the form of passion projects.

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Sameeeeeee

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I love doing what I do, but the hours and endless weekends have gone beyond acceptable. Already mentally out, just stuck.

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Was feeling this way so hard that when I got laid off this month I actually felt relief over anything else. Yes, it’s going to be a long and arduous job hunt, (which I am lucky will be softened by the fact that I have enough short-term savings to keep me safe for a few months) but I felt like I wasn’t happy for a long time. Because my job felt safe and secure, I didn’t proactively seek out something new and then suddenly I felt like I was going to be stuck for at least another year with no upward mobility.

At least it happened as the weather is getting nice so I can spend some time off recharging outdoors and in nature and hopefully feel refreshed when a new gig comes a long in a few months 🤞🏻

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1,000,000,000 % feeling trapped👀

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I want to quit my boss so badly.

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I’ve never been happier.

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Yup. Not sure when companies will start hiring again though. Probably not til q3

I hope you’re right, VP. I’m worried we’re stuck until 2021.

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Yup. Everything everyone said here ^.

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