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My point is that you have to prioritise. Calling it a "social life" is weird! It's _life_! Unless you're creating something, work is the thing that sucks that
by throwaway22032 5y ago
My point is that you have to prioritise. Calling it a "social life" is weird! It's _life_!
Unless you're creating something, work is the thing that sucks that you do to put food on the table.
So you decide - this is the life I want to lead - and this is the job or income source or life quest or whatever that fits into it. Like, it's a holistic thing, it's not a bolt on.
That doesn't mean you go climbing at 2pm on Tuesday, you and your friends are probably at work. That's a different problem.
- reacharavindh 5y agoI called it "social life" only to indicate the time outside of work where one does not have to be professional and care about priorities of a business. Being social at work and caring about it evidently is not enough. As much as I like what I do for work, and never feel like "work is the thing that sucks that you do to put food on the table", doing it at the confines of my house is how I ended up here. Finding other people that I'd like to hang out with was way easier when I was single, had plenty of time in my hands, no covid restrictions, and have some colleagues as catalyst for such friend of a friend of a friend networks. Doing it in a new country, while working from home, with restricted times(growing with a 3 year old son), is the challenge that became too much.
- throwaway22032 5y agoSure, well, like you say - an option is to go into the office, with that 3 hour round trip commute. You're really far away from it and you don't seem to be getting on with WFH. So can you change the job? Move closer to work? etc etc etc. Life is holistic, you can't just change one thing, everything has to move to create balance.