I lost a job after only 8 months and it was a gut punch, if much less of one than your situation Mike. Turned out I had been deriving far too much identity from that career and doing something unrelated as an in-between job was incredibly freeing, even though that job was really shitty, underpaid, labour.
The fitness I gained in that line of work took my hiking game to a new level and led to a few of these touchstone type moments on mountain peaks. When you get far enough away from civilization,* nobody is a graphic designer or a window delivery driver. They're simply human and very small.
*Distance not required but solitude may be.
Aug. 12, 2022, 12:18 p.m. - cheapondirt
I lost a job after only 8 months and it was a gut punch, if much less of one than your situation Mike. Turned out I had been deriving far too much identity from that career and doing something unrelated as an in-between job was incredibly freeing, even though that job was really shitty, underpaid, labour. The fitness I gained in that line of work took my hiking game to a new level and led to a few of these touchstone type moments on mountain peaks. When you get far enough away from civilization,* nobody is a graphic designer or a window delivery driver. They're simply human and very small. *Distance not required but solitude may be.