Apathy is as Apathy does

Currently my portfolio of roles at work has quadrupled in as many months. It has me pulled in more directions than is mathematically comprehensible and I went home last night utterly spent.

So today, I could have done the same.

I could have come to work, grabbed a coffee and pound through any volume of tasks, deadlines, oddities and irregularities of my job only to feel exhausted upon returning home.

Instead, I came to work and went for a lovely breakfast with a friend. We engaged in delightfully insightful banter on a number of things going on in each others lives over a tremendous meal. Grabbed a coffee, checked my email. Answered a few phone calls. Then invited a couple co-workers to a sushi lunch, which extended into a 90 minute festival of laughter and tales of comedic horror while they went toe-to-toe with wasabi roulette. Returned to answer a few more emails, return a few more phone calls and post a few comments on a few blogs. Went for coffee and a walk in the sunshine with a friend from a different department. Now posting this little play-by-play for the amusement of others.

Note to self – no job is worth sacrificing your health and well-being for. No amount of money or recognition is acceptable for living in a nightmare.

I had momentarily lost sight of that.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.