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So here is a thing. I am 22F and have just started working. year back as a Software Engineer.
According to everyone around me, I worry too much about the work I do. Almost in all of the dreams and nightmares, I see work related stuffs. May be some bugs that i am stuck at, or may be some App I am trying to build. Sometimes, I also come up with amazing ideas in them and immediately when I wake up, I start working on them. And then wait. When I tell the same thing to my friends, they will always tell me that I should take "chill pill" and a much needed break from the work. They will also try to convince me how bad it is to always be thinking about it and not to have a different life than that, like no personal life at all. So eventually, I also started to think the same way and stressing myself even more to come up with new hobbies to have a "personal life", until today.
It was weekend today and I had come up with the idea of Drawing as my new hobby. I was finally having a personal life, very different than the work I do, when my parents started fighting and at the end, somehow my Mum managed to drag me as well, into the thing. And we ended up fighting too.
Post that, I again tried to sit with my drawing stuffs but nope, not able to focus. Forget focus, I was not even able to control my never ending tears. Called friends, then boyfriend but with no new result. Could be that I smiled a bit for 2 minutes at some stupid joke made by the friend, but then again back to my sad phase. And just like that, I cried for 3 hours straight. Then finally, thought of opening my laptop and do something with it.
And here it comes, I stopped crying instantly when I found my To Do list for the weekend with my study plans and works to be done.
I studied a bit and I am still smiling, indifferent to my parent's fight. May be this is my escape. May be everyone does not have to avoid their work in weekend. May be it is just not work for some, it is what they like to do and find peace at!
Or may be I am lucky enough to love the work I do...
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There is a saying: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
ReplyContinued: where is the balance in your life? Do you use your work as an escape? Think about this.
ReplyWhat if she really is lucky to enjoy working? I'd be investigating why she feels it's a problem.
ReplyI do enjoy my work, but just like people here, others tell me I do not have the balance.
ReplyI do not know about the balance, but when I open my PC and see people commenting on the product I work on, or how they appreciate it, it really makes me happy.
PS: I work in Online Media Industry with our product being directly consumer facing with lots of engagement.
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