one of the hardest but best lessons of my early thirties is that if people can’t deal with the fact that sometimes I’m just various flavours of too sick to do things like even email for a week at a time, that’s okay! We don’t have to work together!
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admittedly this is much more easily achieved in the precarious spaces of self-employment which comes with its own other challenges like none of the sick cover employment can offer, but so it goes
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@SFdirewolf
so good! But so hard! Did/do you struggle with this? Learning that it’s okay to expect your work life and other folks’ professional expectations to fit round you rather than you trying to fit round it?
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@coffeespoonie
haaaah, yeah, nooooo I am quite old. I should be a fully fledged adult by now, or something. I'm 34.
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@laurasaurusrex
@DisVisibility
it’s so so hard and almost everything in the world is set against refusing this way of being but we were just agreeing that working from this place has opened up much better working relationships and opportunities, even if FOMO still sucks
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@coffeespoonie
you’re doing great, sweetie, amongst whole world’s of fucking enormous stuff going on. Saying no is always an option; there will always always be other opportunities and things to do and people to create and work with along the way <3 I’m still learning this but there you go
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@zaranosaur
Understandable. I was under the weather a couple weeks ago and wasn't really able to do much. Now I have to clean out my inbox.
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