The Burnout is So Real
Jan. 12th, 2022 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitriI'm so tired. Also so cold. Also in intermittent light pain (the doctors did some pokies last week and results came back normal; some friends are suggesting I'm just, like, still healing from last month's surgery).
Today was Staff Recognition Day at work. I'm trying to decide if it was better than or equally absurd to the one in 2020 where the provost told us that only we librarians with our AI can stop the robo-apocalypse and prevent WW3. (I will never be over the fact that that was an actual thing I listened to and we were all sober.) (I also don't remember what the 2021 talk even was.) The person this year is someone leaving academia for consultancy who was presenting on psychological drain, which is for sure an apt topic for 2022. But during q&a someone asked how to deal with that while doing the tenure process, and she answered that sometimes all you can do is learn to accept failure. Which. Wow.
Meanwhile me being me I've had not one but two chats with colleagues where they reminded my hypergraphic self that I don't need to do All the Things. Which I appreciate, and yet me being me, productivity is how I deal with my anxiety and how I maintain my self-esteem. So there's that.
Today was Staff Recognition Day at work. I'm trying to decide if it was better than or equally absurd to the one in 2020 where the provost told us that only we librarians with our AI can stop the robo-apocalypse and prevent WW3. (I will never be over the fact that that was an actual thing I listened to and we were all sober.) (I also don't remember what the 2021 talk even was.) The person this year is someone leaving academia for consultancy who was presenting on psychological drain, which is for sure an apt topic for 2022. But during q&a someone asked how to deal with that while doing the tenure process, and she answered that sometimes all you can do is learn to accept failure. Which. Wow.
Meanwhile me being me I've had not one but two chats with colleagues where they reminded my hypergraphic self that I don't need to do All the Things. Which I appreciate, and yet me being me, productivity is how I deal with my anxiety and how I maintain my self-esteem. So there's that.
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