This post is late this weekend because my regular work spilled into the weekend. I decided to take care of the items on my work list this morning so that they wouldn't be hanging over me all weekend. I used my old trick of having an "only do" list on a sticky note to keep my work from taking over my day and was done with it before lunch. I think I'll write about my "only do" list trick in this month's Management Monthly newsletter (yes, I'm still writing that; no, I don't really know why - but when I think about shutting it down I don't really like that idea, so I keep it going). I should theoretically write that post in my Sunday morning writing time tomorrow. We'll see if that happens or if it ends up being a week late!
Work spilled into my weekend because it has been really busy lately. I am burning out and it is the weirdest thing to feel the burn out coming and not be able to stop it. Almost a year ago, I realized that if I didn't change some things about my job, I would burn out. So I talked to my boss and we got permission for my job to change and I was really happy about that - but then we got hit with a veritable tsunami of projects and we've lost two other project managers and haven't been able to find good replacements yet and so my happy job changes have been put on hold. We have some good leads on potential new hires and I am hoping that works out and that my job can be salvaged. There are a lot of good things about my company and my job and I don't really want to go try to find another job. But the clock is ticking. Or maybe I should say the fuse is burning? I don't know what the most appropriate metaphor is. I just know that there will come a point after which I will be well and truly burned out and that is very hard to come back from without a job change.
Meanwhile, case numbers are down and I'm fully vaccinated... but the pandemic is still not over, particularly for those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated. Risks still need to be assessed and mitigated, life is still not back to "normal." People talk about hitting a pandemic wall and I think that one of the things that has been hard about parenting in this past year has been that our kids are hitting pandemic walls, too, and you have to help them through it no matter how flattened into your own pandemic wall you feel.
Anyhow, enough whinging about why I am so wiped out. Let's see what I have in the way of links.
Jessica Valenti's post on the fears of raising a daughter is really good. I haven't brought myself to read all that much about Blake Bailey, but I did read Rebecca Traister's piece and it is very good.
This is an interesting article about one of LA's new tiny home villages.
The story of the successful changes at the Newark police department is encouraging.
This is an interesting kickstarter campaign for a new company that is going to make hiking pants for women sizes 14 and up.
I really enjoyed Krista Tippet's interview with Layli Long Soldier and would like to get her book of poetry WHEREAS.
This juxtaposition of images gave me chills (in a good way).
I wish this viral tweet would’ve noted that @frankthorp took the shot of Harris at the Capitol. Credit your news photographers 📸 https://t.co/fEo5V3SBhm
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) April 29, 2021
This is brilliant:
I have always been of the opinion that pick up artists and garbage men should switch titles.
— Spot aka Scrib aka Big Blue (@JScrib325) April 26, 2021
Quokkas are just so ridiculously happy looking:
— Quokka Every Hour (@quokkaeveryhour) April 30, 2021
And look at this adorable hamster:
📅 30th April 2021
— Hamster of the Day 🐹 (@hamsterofthe) April 30, 2021
🐹 Bonnie
🏷️@Linduuhh
💕#animaloftheday pic.twitter.com/YP8CaXj3R1
Here are your bunnies of the week:
Bunny love! 😍
— Carl Bovis (@CarlBovisNature) April 24, 2021
These are both young rabbits, one older than the other and probably siblings.
I was watching them in a field in my Somerset village when a loud motorbike went past. The smallest bunny ran straight for the larger one and they sat like this for 2 minutes after.😍 pic.twitter.com/erKPjv1fwi
Happy weekend!
Crossing my fingers that your leads for new hires pan out and you get some great support in ASAP.
ReplyDeleteI drove myself past the point of burnout in prepping for my parental leave and needed every bit of that time off to come back from that edge but emotionally I'm still disengaged and certainly not at all recuperated from it post-leave. But it's not like I'll be less stressed at another job. At least here I have a great deal of autonomy and political capital. The best case scenario is getting safe childcare and education options so we can limit ourselves to just working or just parenting and not both all the time forever. But I have no clue when that's going to come back so we just have to keep going forward as best we can.