• awkwardly_personal@lemmynsfw.com
    7·
    16 days ago

    Having a job you don’t hate is such an amazing thing, it’s well worth changing positions every few years if you hate the work, it looks good on a resume and is great for salary.

    That being said if you can find a position that is bearable or even enjoyable it’s absolutely not worth risking for salary imo (provided financially sustainability). On paper compared to many of my college peers I’m now pretty far behind in salary due to not pivoting to CS, but in terms of mental health it couldn’t be more different.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    Second to last day of vacation isn’t the worst. Second day after returning is the worst. First day back at work you still think you’re refreshed and life will be better now. End of the second day back you realize it’s the same shit as ever and vacation is just a momentary illusion otherwise.

  • Fleur_@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    16 days ago

    You fucking baby clearly you’ve never felt the pain your boss feels when you take you’re legally mandated vacation time.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    1·
    15 days ago

    That’s why you’re supposed to go to someplace dirty and uncomfortable for vacation.

    Then your free time is over, but you get clean bathrooms and reliable electricity back!

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    That’s rough. I took a “mental health” day this week that got turned into a day of running errands, so guess who basically worked all through their mental health day off?

    • blady_blah@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 days ago

      Doesn’t matter. Still feels good to get stuff done that’s for you and not for somebody else. I’ve gotten old enough that I’d love doing gardening or fixing stuff around the house on my weekends. That shit’s for me, it makes my life better, not someone else’s.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        While I see where you’re coming from, I need time to decompress and just do my own shit, so running the fam around and getting needed errands done was just more work vs actually refreshing my mental state

        Burnout fucking sucks and getting recharge times stolen absolutely matters.

        • blady_blah@lemmy.world
          1·
          16 days ago

          Oh no doubt. I’m not saying that I come home and jump into doing chores, I’m saying that doing constructive or productive stuff in your own life can have a good recharge feeling in it’s own way. I certainly come home and veg in front of the computer… but if I spend the whole weekend vegging in front of my computer I end up feeling MORE like shit than I did on Friday. A healthy combination of both leaves me feeling recharged and happy.

  • hihellobyeoh@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 days ago

    I feel opposite, but that’s because the boss just went on vacation, so I don’t have to deal with him for a week.

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 days ago

    Don’t worry, it could be worse! My last job fired me on my vacation because I refused to work while out of town!

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    17 days ago

    There are people that live the life you have on vacation 24x7, and they absolutely hate life. It’s the contrast of the wonderful and the s*** that makes the wonderful, wonderful.