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I don't know anymore and I need a break from it all

I don't know anymore and I need a break from it all

Last night I went out against my initial instinct not to. I figured I needed some social atmosphere after a dull day at work. My work is dull and there is only one place I can work at out of a possible 6 places that I actually feel accepted and appreciated - but they have me doing such meaningless work. This is all down to the fact that the workplace is boring and the work is itself boring as well. There is so much politics in the workplace because of this - more than the average workplace.

I already know that I am the subject of rumours and gossip due to a mistake I made once about mid way through last year. I accidently tagged someone in an email chain at another work station and they saw what I had written. This person has then gone on to tell others and I believe this is why I look like a fool to them and its why they have started to treat me differently in many places.

I didn't say anything bad about people and I didn't say anything horrible. I just said that they didn't train people there at that workstation and that people did not like there generally.

I will be returning to that workstation on monday and tuesday next week and I am REALLY REALLY dreading it. They tell secrets, they gossip, they play games they do all sorts of rubbish there. I will be treated like scum and I am not looking forward to it one bit.

Last night I was out and I felt bad and then good and then normal. It was very mixed. I don't have social media aside from facebook which I don't use often enough at all. I am not into that stuff even though I probably should be and could probably benefit from the interaction - but its all so fake.

Today I have spent a long time doing basic tasks for my internship because I want to make a good impression and FINALLY LEAVE MY CURRENT JOB to do something new with this company. It is relevant to my area of study and I can see myself doing it. I think I will take a huge downward turn if I don't get something out of this role. My attention is so strained by the thought of going to this place next week that I don't know how to find my way through this bad time.

I feel isolated and hated by people and I don't deserve to feel that way.

There is so much fake stuff in the world and I have had enough of it, but I don't know what to replace it with.

I feel empty and lost and I am really just done with pop psychology and BS self esteem movements that just say I need accept myself and love myself. That's not possible when I am in a bad place and surrounded by bad stuff. It's like saying "snap out of it" to someone who is depressed.

I feel like my social skills have taken a huge leap forward but then a giant leap backwards in the past 2 years. Back to where they were long ago.

I am tired. Really tired. Depressed and sad. Lonely and exhausted.

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@MDT Good luck for tomorrow my friend. I will be thinking of you.

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@Schitzo @oceangirl @saltandpepper
Thanks friends. Should be interesting to see what they have for me. I can already tell it'll be better than what I was otherwise doing before.
It looks like the internship stuff is being resolved so that's good.
I will now refuse to do any more stuff over a weekend - but then i also think of the benefits that come from that. There is a cause and effect to all things in life a wise man once told me.

I am just playing a pc game with some chill music on in the background
Will head to bed shortly. Nite

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Hope it goes well for ya tomorrow @MDT 👍

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Thanks @saltandpepper
Headed there now

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Wishing you a really good day today my friend @MDT xxoo

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Thanks @BlueBay my awesome friend
Just had morning tea haha

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@TAB @Meowmy @oceangirl
@Bunniekins @BlueBay @frog @Clawde @Shaz51 @Snowie @Schitzo @Appleblossom @Mazarita @Adge @saltandpepper
@Judi9877

Well-being is something I reflected on today.

At lunch I was really chilled out. Not stressed at all. My well-being already improved.

I was also able to employ some narrative therapy. I reminded myself of what I have been through. Where I am at now.

I accept life is hard. But that doesn't mean it NEEDS to be miserable. It doesn't mean it needs to be made worse by bad management and poor judgement.

This job will end in October and I'm ok with that. I wouldn't want to be doing this for longer. But I see value in it for the next 5 months. That makes it a lot easier to go to work. Unlike my last role. I'll be spending a lot time as a right hand to one of the management team. Not precisely what I expected. But that's ok because again, I was sick of where I was. Looking at it with a mindset that says "I have to be someone's assistant" is one way yes, but another way is to look at it and say "i gain experiences that I otherwise would not have got in my old role".

I just have to keep a cool head and remember my own story.

Be kind to myself and don't demand the impossible.

And to of course remember, that i can always quit if it's too much or too hard or unnecessarily causing me problems.

But I guess I can apply this to other aspects of life like uni (which is going to be jam packed).

Thing to remember is that I have control over it

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@MDT well done, Hamso

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Glad it went ok for you @MDT

Hopefully it continues this way 😁

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In the end we can only measure ourselves against ourselves
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