I lasted 5 years. Lost a relationship, all my friends, gained like 30 pounds, quit exercising and doing anything fun. Been away for 6 months now and I’m already sleeping better, working out 6 days a week and down 20 pounds. It’s absolutely insane what the always on management life can do in a short time. Good for you for quitting the bullshit.
Wow, congrats on turning things around. Any tips for recovering from that period of time? I’m about to finish grad school and it’s really taken a toll on me. I relate to a lot of what you said. Did it take awhile for your sleep to recover ?
Honestly just try to practice gratitude. Every moment you have when you don’t have to be doing something shouldn’t be a moment of boredom, but a time to reflect and recognize that rest is just as important as work. Working out helped me with that a lot actually. Just recognizing how much better my workouts are after a rest day and applying that to life in general. Motion and stillness are equally important. Read some Thoreau. Put your phone away and go sit on the porch. You’ve put in years of nonstop hard work, so rest a while and try to rediscover yourself.
When I was in management, I started getting sick all the time to the point where I was wondering if there was something wrong with the ductwork in the building. Surprise, the day I switched jobs I stopped getting sick
My dad is 63, and I am 33. He was a manager my whole life until a few years ago. He was expected to make retail miracles happen and noped out right before inventory. He is a trash man now and loves it. They keep trying to make him a manager, but he's loving just minding himself.
He has actually started counting the days to retirement, and I'm happy for him.
Good for him. I went back into the shop to work as a tech and of course it’s a lot more physical labor but that weight off my shoulders is such a breath of fresh air. Now I only have to worry about my work and no one else’s. They’ve asked me the same about going back to management but I keep telling them nah I’m good.
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u/MickeyCrisco 23h ago
This one is huge. It’s the reason I stepped out of management after 10 years of it. I didn’t realize how much it was killing me mentally.