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Yeah I'm on a few months break from working and the most unexpected downside is the uptick in existential dread I've experienced.

• pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  I'll anti-anecdote that. I've just started working a steady office job again after a 15 year "break" (mostly non-office work; raising kids) and existential dread is eating me. I had a couple of months interim and despite being dirt-poor in that time (no income practically) had no dread at all; too little time to get existential!
  • dredmorbius 7y ago
    1. Raising kids is work. 2. It may be that it's the change in routine and identity is what's dread-inducing, more than the "work" (traditional/office/wage-labour) vs. "not work" distinction.
• onemoresoop 7y ago
  Too much free time I'd say. Get busy, do things, fill up the calendar!