I can't remember if I've told you this story before, but when I was interviewing for my current organization, the executive director sat me down at my final interview and told me, very earnestly, that he thought I was a wonderful candidate and would be a great contributor to the organization, but that he wanted me to know that this job would not be my life. He'd noticed that I went to a prestigious university and was concerned that I would not be okay with a job that was an eight-hours-a-day job and that, when the day was over, you went home and left it alone until the next work day.
He was apparently astonished when I told him that was exactly what I wanted: a job that was challenging, but that ended at the end of the day.
I still don't have work email or Teams or anything else on my phone, refuse to hold work conversations over texts (which is also partly self-defense against FOIA), and that's okay. And every time something goes stupid at work and I think about leaving, that fact gets added to the "reasons I'm ok with this actually" column. Which is a terrible indictment of the state of work in general.
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I can't remember if I've told you this story before, but when I was interviewing for my current organization, the executive director sat me down at my final interview and told me, very earnestly, that he thought I was a wonderful candidate and would be a great contributor to the organization, but that he wanted me to know that this job would not be my life. He'd noticed that I went to a prestigious university and was concerned that I would not be okay with a job that was an eight-hours-a-day job and that, when the day was over, you went home and left it alone until the next work day.
He was apparently astonished when I told him that was exactly what I wanted: a job that was challenging, but that ended at the end of the day.
I still don't have work email or Teams or anything else on my phone, refuse to hold work conversations over texts (which is also partly self-defense against FOIA), and that's okay. And every time something goes stupid at work and I think about leaving, that fact gets added to the "reasons I'm ok with this actually" column. Which is a terrible indictment of the state of work in general.