Chaotic Coffee Klatch (tea also available)

[rjr_1954]

Hi @B2fromA2looking4U !
Hot chocolate please!

Good Morning @Shadynz22
or close enough.

 

[rjr_1954]

Hello, everyone!

I was offline for a week. Struggling with burnout at work, unfortunately .

I hope everyone has a beautiful and productive start to the week.

Much love to y'all

Nice to see you back @mlvis00
But you needed that time.

 

[Strixaluco]

What is he resoling (spelling??)

No new soles this time. The both heels of my pretty spring boots had one part peeled off, so needed to fix that.

But I have had resoling made to 2 pairs of shoes in the past. One is a pair of Ecco winter shoes, bought in 2001 and the leather still looks like I bought them 2,5 and not 22,5 years ago!

 

[Strixaluco]

Feeling better now, yes.

Well, I said "burnout" but to be honest, it wouldn't be my first time, and this week was nowhere near the last time it happened to me. At that time I did pay a visit to my therapist.

Fortunately, my workload is almost zero, and this week I'm staying at home. Last week was exceptionally hard though

I'm taking it easy

That sounds like unsolved issues in your mind/life/work (pick 1-3).

I am currently trying to get back to working from an episode of depression & burnout. Still don't know how it works, but at least I got rid of my horrendous previous job.

 

[rjr_1954]

Definitely, I needed it. Glad to come back

I feel for you working people, still have to put with that crap! But don't retire, it also sucks, I've been bored shitless for 6 years now.

 

[Deadbed1968]

I usually get at least 5 hours. Haven’t had one of these nights in awhile. Im enjoying the early onset of delirium, but also terrified about it. It always gives me flashbacks to so many nights of my youth, where you’re suddenly faced with the fact that the sun has come up but you have yet to go down.

I used to sleep great. I miss those days. The past few years have been rough.

 

[Strixaluco]

I'd say rather 3. I quit my job a couple of years ago, after several episodes of unfair treatment (especially after the pandemic). I found a better position in a different place, I'm still there now, and everything was going smoothly... until this week.

I think remembering all the stress from my last bad experience was not good. I hope not to return to the same point.

A kind of trauma backlash you mean?

When several people at the same workplace burn out, it must be the work. When the same people burns out at different work places, then there might be something personal. Both are also possible at the same time.

I've learned that I actually do have personal tendency to easily burn out - autism often does that, I get strained by so many everyday things. But it also makes "the canary bird in the coal mine". When I burn out, I may just the first one.

I don't see myself retiring. Not yet, and I'm not sure about the future either. I love what I do. But from time to time there's who ruins it a bit

That's nice to hear. I wouldn't necessarily mind, I've struggled most of my career.

 

[Strixaluco]

I used to sleep great. I miss those days. The past few years have been rough.

My asthma med prescription was just switched from one that is taken every morning and evening to one that is taken in other mornings only - in attempt to make me sleep better. We'll see how it goes... Haven't bought the new one yet as I have so much left of the old one.

 

[Strixaluco]

Oh, definitely it's the work then. I talk with my coworkers often, and we've been the same.

Yeah, maybe I could change my mind in the future, but not for now.

Well you won't change your mind about that job, then. Possibly at most about whether you had only one reason, or other ones as well.

And sometimes of course one bad experience may cause you to have a personal reason later My friend got trauma (the story isn't mine to tell), and became more prone to burning out...

 

[rjr_1954]

I'd say rather 3. I quit my job a couple of years ago, after several episodes of unfair treatment (especially after the pandemic). I found a better position in a different place, I'm still there now, and everything was going smoothly... until this week.

I think remembering all the stress from my last bad experience was not good. I hope not to return to the same point.


I don't see myself retiring. Not yet, and I'm not sure about the future either. I love what I do. But from time to time there's who ruins it a bit

I didn't see it coming either, but it was necessary at the time, even at 69 I'd go back in the workforce in a heartbeat!

 

[Deadbed1968]

My asthma med prescription was just switched from one that is taken every morning and evening to one that is taken in other mornings only - in attempt to make me sleep better. We'll see how it goes... Haven't bought the new one yet as I have so much left of the old one.

I hope it helps!!

 

[Strixaluco]

I hope it helps!!

Me too! It seems I usually don't sleep deep for a few hours after taking my old med... That's why I wanted to change.

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

I feel for you working people, still have to put with that crap! But don't retire, it also sucks, I've been bored shitless for 6 years now.

My experience is quite different since I retired. The first was an adjustment but I had a plan to do consulting and that was fun and kept me busy. After my wife passed, my daughter and her children have kept me busy and I am active in meetup groups and volunteering so definitlely not bored. Retirement like life, is what you make it.

 

[rjr_1954]

My experience is quite different since I retired. The first was an adjustment but I had a plan to do consulting and that was fun and kept me busy. After my wife passed, my daughter and her children have kept me busy and I am active in meetup groups and volunteering so definitlely not bored. Retirement like life, is what you make it.

You have Family, I do not, only wifey

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

You have Family, I do not, only wifey

You can volunteer and do meet ups? Again, up to you and no judgement. Just presenting an alternative to those considering retirement.

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

Subject COVID 19 new variant: I really am getting tired of the partial truths of TV media. This morning they said the new XBB.1.5 variant of COVID had symtoms similar to allergy symptoms - itchy and red eyes. Not neccessarily true. The symptoms are similar to previous variants. And it appears to have the same effects as previous variants. It just spreads more easily. I fact checked using Yale and other Public Health Universities.

 

[rjr_1954]

You have Family, I do not, only wifey

You know, if Strixaluco ever made a comment to me or answered me, I'd, in real life, Drop Dead!
Members, here say, just don't answer or respond, but I'm VERY Remorseful for my past! It just burns my soul, to be not accepted by her. I'm this way in real life too (my wife says I'm annoying). So I'm stuck!

 

[rjr_1954]

You can volunteer and do meet ups? Again, up to you and no judgement. Just presenting an alternative to those considering retirement.

After this (last) move, we will be were we want to be, and I'll apply to be a driver for the senior bus, or transport. Can't do meet ups, wifey is too jealous.

 

[Bry1313]

I don’t wanna actually go into the office the next three days.!

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

I don’t wanna actually go into the office the next three days.!

What can we do to help? Coffee, tea, espresso, capacino, hot chocolate?

 

[Bry1313]

Oh a cappuccino would be a fucking delight

 

[rjr_1954]

I don’t wanna actually go into the office the next three days.!

Then don't, do you get time off?
I have a question; are you M or F, I can't tell from your Avatar?

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

 

[Trubbycat]

Morning folks!

 

[Bry1313]

Then don't, do you get time off?
I have a question; are you M or F, I can't tell from your Avatar?

Some mysteries get to remain a mystery.