Has anyone ever struggled with losing interest in keeping their jobs after being chronically sick? I find it hard to keep a job after I've been out for many days due to being sick. I simply enjoy my free time more as well as cooking meals at home and stretching. The push to get me back into the workplace gets to feel overbearing. Especially since I've already had a job that wrote me out when covid-19 started because I took a week off to get a covid test. They accused me of “taking a vacation” and decided to double whammy a second and final written warning at the same time to put me on probation so they could use the pandemic to pressure me into working harder by threatening to take my job away.
I enjoyed myself very much when I got to spend more time at home, reading books, learning a new skills, exercising etc.
Its like once you get a taste of life without your job, it gets harder and harder to go back. I'm now experiencing the same dilemma with my current job as a client services agent. I'm realizing how bored I am with it, and some days can be fairly stressful since we deal with public school teachers. A lot of getting yelled at because the company fobbed on delivering test materials on time.