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Lost after mat leaves and lockdowns...

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Notforallthetea · 14/06/2024 17:23

Can anyone relate to this?

My life in 2018 was a busy office/travelling job, five days a week, with colleagues all the time.

Then I had my baby, lost my job, straight into COVID lockdowns, second mat leave.

Have finally finished having babies and I'm now in a new job part time which I like, but it's mainly working from home- and when I do go to the office, not many people are in. A lot of my team are also based across the country. Working from home though is obviously helpful for school run.

I feel like I'm in a midlife crisis and completely rudderless. Is it loneliness? I keep having mad ideas about moving to a different city/any city and thinking that's the answer (we moved out to a smaller town when I was pregnant with my first). I think I thought I would have made more of a network here by now, but I just have a handful of nursery mum acquaintances and feel really transient, like there's no rhythm to my life and I could be anywhere. I realise now that my main social network was at work before I was pregnant- my close friends are all across the country so don't get to see them on the reg.

Sorry for the stream of consciousness! Just at a bit of a crossroads. Can anyone relate? Just feels like my life entered lockdown when I had my baby and has never really come out of it

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Bluevelvetsofa · 14/06/2024 17:52

I think there are many people who feel somewhat rudderless after such events. You’ve had massive changes and the whole workplace expectation has shifted.

I know lots of people who feel much less social and sociable, go out less and seem a bit lost. It’s just more difficult to establish new connections now and easier to be isolated.

Notforallthetea · 14/06/2024 21:12

Thanks, yeah I think that is it, i think work sort of structured and scaffolded my whole life before, and the double whammy of having babies and working from home is really hard to adjust to. I'm glad it's not just me

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