An Unpopular Opinion.
Fun-employment is not fun (so start a blog).
Three months ago, I quit my job. Hundreds of people quit jobs, accept new ones, and create their own version of a job every day. But you see, I quit my DREAM job. It was the job I had worked towards my entire academic career. It was the job I thought I always wanted. It was the job that defined every single move I made in my career up until the moment that I got it. And when I finally did get it, it gave me so many highs but so many more deep lows. (I may divulge names and dirty details at some point in the future…if this blog still exists after my ego recovers from the bruising.)
So after two years, I knew I had to give it up, to preserve my emotional and physical health. Without anything in the pipeline. And for a driven, obsessive, over achiever like me, who started work 3 days after my college graduation and ran towards some version of a new goal for the better part of a decade, that is TERRIFYING. And thought provoking. So here goes…
