I graduated University in December, a semester early, with the intention of using that second semester off for traveling. Obviously, with COVID that didn’t happ

I graduated University in December, a semester early, with the intention of using that second semester off for traveling. Obviously, with COVID that didn’t happen so I instead decided to move my start date up at Big Tech Co. to February. Now 9 months in I feel like I’m burnt out as well. For me it’s a combination of health issues but also the response to COVID. When restrictions lifted at the start of summer and everyone I knew got vaccines I mentally prepared for the end of the storm. And for a few weeks it looked like that. The summer was fun and I got to be social again and feel like the world was going back normal. Then a trip was cancelled overseas because of the Delta variant. And now restrictions are being put back in place and it’s just not clear what’s going to happen. The idea that things may never go back to pre-covid times and that when people are confronted with the possibility of covid being here to stay many of them argue that the status quo is ideal really depresses me. I cannot live in this world where I cannot see people’s faces and work is just zoom meeting after zoom meeting. It’s not just the light at the end of the tunnel that I crave, it’s seeing the light at all that i crave. I crave knowing this will come to an end.