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I have this theory: Humans have a spectrum for "worrying about things" or "things deemed important", let's call it 0 to 1. Things you don't worry about are 0. D

I have this theory: Humans have a spectrum for "worrying about things" or "things deemed important", let's call it 0 to 1. Things you don't worry about are 0. During normal life you worry about some things, and stuff surrounding work may even approach 1. Normal, because your family's well-being may depend on it. Then you retire or become unemployed and the 0 to 1 spectrum starts to drop in scope, the spectrum starts to cover a much narrower reality. Soon you worry and get annoyed by your neighbor not taking good care of his lawn or kids skating through the park... I've seen it happen to people retiring, I was once unemployed for 10 months and I felt it happen to me too. I then thought: Perhaps for me the working life, life filled with intellectual challenges, may never loose its appeal?! I will just have to make sure to make work more fun by getting rid of the boring parts and focus on the the fun parts. Then, at 67, why would I stop if I got to an almost "pure fun" state? Of course what is fun is also determined by what you are good at so I have no idea what that "work" will look like. Just a thought from a 41 y/o.

influx 3y ago
I’ve taken off a year and a half from work and similar to your theory, I have the same amount of stress in my life, I just apply it to non work parts of my life. I was shocked.
- teekert 3y ago
  Yes, that's indeed how I felt. Idk, I do think there are people that don't experience this effect or perhaps less. In general I've felt best when I was making or doing something I felt was really worth doing. Happy clients, difficult work (by my own standards, but also, I like to think by humanity's), lots of time spend highly focused.
throwaway98797 3y ago
i get antsy after 6 months off i’m exploring new subjects new challenges the biggest thing is that you have to talk about something if you aren’t working that something could be family, tv, or hobbies but you got to talk about something if you’re world gets too small you have only simple things like tv 2 video games shows to talk about and for me that never felt enough i like a sprinkle of drama in my life i too am in my 40s

influx 3y ago

I’ve taken off a year and a half from work and similar to your theory, I have the same amount of stress in my life, I just apply it to non work parts of my life. I was shocked.

teekert 3y ago
Yes, that's indeed how I felt. Idk, I do think there are people that don't experience this effect or perhaps less. In general I've felt best when I was making or doing something I felt was really worth doing. Happy clients, difficult work (by my own standards, but also, I like to think by humanity's), lots of time spend highly focused.

throwaway98797 3y ago

i get antsy after 6 months off i’m exploring new subjects new challenges the biggest thing is that you have to talk about something if you aren’t working that something could be family, tv, or hobbies but you got to talk about something if you’re world gets too small you have only simple things like tv 2 video games shows to talk about and for me that never felt enough i like a sprinkle of drama in my life i too am in my 40s