i hate to be this person because i used to roll my eyes at people who told me this but finally making myself go through uncomfortable situations for the possibility of joy has resulted in me being happier than i ever could have imagined being. i do think that you should always listen to yourself but i prevented my own happiness for a long time by not knowing how to tell intuition from overthinking and being too afraid and sticking to negative what if’s when i should have been sticking to positive what if’s. not every venture outside your comfort zone will result in some revelation that moves the earth under your feet but the probablilty of it is zero if you never venture out
And it’s weird to care. Work shouldn’t be an endurance test. Let me sit. We’re not doing a survivor challenge. You don’t think people can sit down and work at the same time? You’re gonna be real mad when you find out what an office is.”
As a german this sentiment is so weird to me, like in super markets/grocery stores all the cashiers have chairs ALL OF THEM
Even in the the run down cheap ones the cashiers get to sit down, even in the dollar store, everywhere! its so weird to think that is not normal because it should be why the hell should you need to stand to scan groceries?
At some point we need to recognize this toxic comparison that we foist on each other that says you aren’t working as hard as me and I deserve things that you don’t. What a sick survivalist mentality.
It’s a societal psychosis perpetuated by people infected with this idea of rugged American individualism and rooted in misconceptions about pioneering in 17th and 18th century America.
Literally everything in the nature works in harmony - the examples and lessons are endless. Its called an ecosystem. But too many people abhor this idea that we can work together to help each other survive.
Hence we have people who are upset that someone can sit down and earn $7.50 an hour. What a sad douchebag that person who is angry about this.
Honestly this is one of the reasons I left my last clinic. We worked 12 hour shifts and only got one 20 minute lunch break. The rest of the time you had to be standing; you couldn’t even lean on the wall or exam tables. And it’s not like we had to worry about looking “professional” or whatever because clients couldn’t see or visit the treatment area. The vet and office manager didn’t care what you did as long as it didn’t compromise patient care. But heaven forbid the clinic director catch you sitting or leaning when she walked through (which she did at random times every day), even if you were still keeping crazy busy 🙄 Needless to say, after 5 years, I couldn’t keep doing that with my fibromyalgia, so I started looking elsewhere (plus I was getting burned out with high-volume S/N anyway).
At my current clinic, I still work long shifts with few breaks – but I can sit if I need to. No one cares, as long as the work gets done 🤷 Sad that this is such a radical concept.
