My job is great. It’s challenging and rewarding and demands all of my attention. My coworkers and boss is awesome too. But during the 8-4, I am constantly making decisions and actualizing them. I have no time to think through my work, only do do do. So when I go home, my brain stays at work and in a week I must spend and additional 15 hours thinking through project problem. I don’t get paid for it. I hate it. I can’t stop doing it. I need help on how to change this.
I come home exhausted every day and don’t have any energy for the rest of life’s administrative tasks or anything else enjoyable. I’m growing to resent my 40 hour a week desk job for taking 60 of my brain hours (I’m including commuting time) and feel like if I worked 3 days a week, I could get enough rest to feel refreshed.
I don’t know how people come home from work and don’t think about what still needs to get done at the job or come home from a 9 hour day and have energy to do anything that is good for them consistently. Help me figure out how to stop thinking so much or to turn off my brain. I feel like my life is passing me by if I only have any energy for the two days a week off. I feel like a wage slave even though my job is awesome.
I literally just ate a Costco soft serve ice cream in my car alone after a grocery run instead of going on a real run.