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The Letdown

On why not taking a scheduled break is hard.


This is a short one related to this tweet:

“worked ass off all week to try to get a little break, that really is a half-assed break, which isn’t much of a break at all. #doingitwrong”

I like what I do, so I don’t want this to come off too negatively, but the reality is that I tend to work too much and not schedule much time off. In the case of last week, I had some good friends getting married, and I simply wanted to clear most of my schedule for a couple days so that I could enjoy the festivities.

I’m not sure what’s worse sometimes, not taking breaks, or scheduling a break and then feeling let down when you can’t follow through
on it.

Well, stuff doesn’t always work out the way it should, and I had an interesting (to me) observation Friday morning, while working when I was hoping I wouldn’t be: I’m not sure what’s worse sometimes, not taking breaks, or scheduling a break and then feeling let down when you can’t follow through on it. The emotional/psychological consequences of option two are often more frustrating to me. I was expecting some time off, began to look forward to it, and then couldn’t actually make it happen.

Oh well; that’s life sometimes. I’ll try not to use this as an excuse to not schedule time off in the future…



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