..how did you do it?
I’ve accepted I will have to remain in my job for the foreseeable future, at the very least another 18-24 months until I clear my debts. I moved house last year and costly renovations wiped out several years of savings so I need to build that up again. It is a well paid job and I’m extremely fortunate in that I can WFH a lot. However I don’t enjoy it and am dreading the post Easter return next week. Lots of reasons I won’t bore everyone with but I’ve posted previously about a toxic manager and an unpleasant/cut-throat work environment.
I’ve read on other threads that the key thing is to just compartmentalise and separate yourself from work completely. View it as a thing you do to earn money, don’t engage with work politics and completely switch off out of hours. I find this hard to do as I find myself ruminating for hours about various dramas with colleagues and other issues.
If you dislike your job but have been able to push it to one side when you are not working and truly enjoy non-work time, how do you do it? I would love to start a hobby to take my mind of work but have two DC and they take up all my energy. I can’t fathom squeezing in a pastime or going to the gym etc.