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I took a sabbatical from work and now I don’t think I can go back.

The amount of clarity and inner peace I've gained these past 5 months – no dollar amount can buy. Most everything about working is tailored to extroverts. The thought of doing Powerpoint presentations and being stuck in (too many) meetings brings me so much dread now. I see that it's all pointless but it doesn't make it any less irritating and stressful. I went into advertising for the creative outlet. It sucked it out of me and it took 5 months to get an ounce of it back. Everything created ends up being reduced to the lowest common denominator, even the Super Bowl ads everyone raves about (been part of that, never again). But what I still don't understand after all my reflecting is how we got here. We're just a bunch of adults playing pretend. No one knows what they're doing – it feels like whoever's the best bullshitter…


The amount of clarity and inner peace I've gained these past 5 months – no dollar amount can buy. Most everything about working is tailored to extroverts. The thought of doing Powerpoint presentations and being stuck in (too many) meetings brings me so much dread now. I see that it's all pointless but it doesn't make it any less irritating and stressful.

I went into advertising for the creative outlet. It sucked it out of me and it took 5 months to get an ounce of it back. Everything created ends up being reduced to the lowest common denominator, even the Super Bowl ads everyone raves about (been part of that, never again).

But what I still don't understand after all my reflecting is how we got here. We're just a bunch of adults playing pretend. No one knows what they're doing – it feels like whoever's the best bullshitter “wins.”

Am I making any sense?

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