The HBP (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} initial_aitch) wrote,@ 2009-05-31 19:20:00 |
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I will be getting my life back.
I’ve quit my soul-sucking, thankless job and will be starting a new, less harmful one soon. This has been an extremely long time coming, and I feel such a weight lifted from me that it’s even easier to breathe.
The powers that be have been panicking, trying to keep the collective head above water for a non-profit arts organization suffering in this economy (and under its current flawed leadership). This has meant budget cuts galore, staff layoffs, charging us for health insurance, and pay cuts. It’s been rapidly progressive over the past few years, and I’ve never seen so many unhappy, stressed, overworked masochistic staff.
Gory details aside, I am free. It’s not so much the place or the work that I need to escape from as what it’s doing to me. It’s robbed much of my health, my time, and my happiness. But I’m gonna get those things back, dammit. I’m totally pulling a Lester Burnham here, baby.
The new job is just a nice, small-office desk job. Normal daytime hours, weekends OFF, holidays OFF (instead of being assured that I will work every one of them), and a mere 40 hours a week. The business is THRIVING enough to create this new position because they need more help. Plus, after I get my bearings back, I can start taking massage clients as my part-time gig. Plus plus, after 90 days my salary will be back to what it had been before my current workplace’s pay cuts, so perhaps I can look into house-hunting after all.
I want LJ back too. I’m sorry I’ve been distant, but in times of depression I tend to retreat. LJ is my happy place, and I despise that I haven’t been able to enjoy it like I want to. It’s another pleasure I’ve been robbed of. The creative impotence bothers me the most. I miss writing, and there are fandoms gnawing at me like none have ever done before.
The light at the end of the tunnel has finally arrived, and things should sort themselves out. And now, I’m outta here. The weather is fanTAStic, and I must go enjoy it before summer gets here.
I’ve quit my soul-sucking, thankless job and will be starting a new, less harmful one soon. This has been an extremely long time coming, and I feel such a weight lifted from me that it’s even easier to breathe.
The powers that be have been panicking, trying to keep the collective head above water for a non-profit arts organization suffering in this economy (and under its current flawed leadership). This has meant budget cuts galore, staff layoffs, charging us for health insurance, and pay cuts. It’s been rapidly progressive over the past few years, and I’ve never seen so many unhappy, stressed, overworked masochistic staff.
Gory details aside, I am free. It’s not so much the place or the work that I need to escape from as what it’s doing to me. It’s robbed much of my health, my time, and my happiness. But I’m gonna get those things back, dammit. I’m totally pulling a Lester Burnham here, baby.
The new job is just a nice, small-office desk job. Normal daytime hours, weekends OFF, holidays OFF (instead of being assured that I will work every one of them), and a mere 40 hours a week. The business is THRIVING enough to create this new position because they need more help. Plus, after I get my bearings back, I can start taking massage clients as my part-time gig. Plus plus, after 90 days my salary will be back to what it had been before my current workplace’s pay cuts, so perhaps I can look into house-hunting after all.
I want LJ back too. I’m sorry I’ve been distant, but in times of depression I tend to retreat. LJ is my happy place, and I despise that I haven’t been able to enjoy it like I want to. It’s another pleasure I’ve been robbed of. The creative impotence bothers me the most. I miss writing, and there are fandoms gnawing at me like none have ever done before.
The light at the end of the tunnel has finally arrived, and things should sort themselves out. And now, I’m outta here. The weather is fanTAStic, and I must go enjoy it before summer gets here.
