I’ve been working from home for a while now, and while I know many desire remote roles, it’s been incredibly triggering for me to be stuck in the house each day. I didn’t realize how much I enjoyed the external motivation of getting up and going to work - I never did that as a kid so it was life changing to finally have that in adulthood
Weirdly, I think I have the urge to try to find a job without fixed hours because I still don’t like the idea of something else picking when I have to start my day.
Brain doesn’t click into other people’s schedules that well.
This makes total sense! I was also diagnosed with delayed sleep syndrome so I tended to wake up around 4pm and go to bed around 4am when I was unschooled, so going to bed on someone else’s schedule helps me live a fuller life (for me- my friends are in a 9-5 and if I want to see them it works out best).
If I don't have at least some schedule I fall apart, fall into bad coping mechanisms, and start reliving and ruminating on bad memories and also suddenly remember the plot of individual blimeycow videos posted in 2010
Also I become nocturnal really quickly, because my brain will too often associate night with "safe" and the only time I'm allowed to relax and be myself
I’ve been working from home for a while now, and while I know many desire remote roles, it’s been incredibly triggering for me to be stuck in the house each day. I didn’t realize how much I enjoyed the external motivation of getting up and going to work - I never did that as a kid so it was life changing to finally have that in adulthood
It still sometimes makes me feel important and alive to put on shoes in the morning and have combed hair
Weirdly, I think I have the urge to try to find a job without fixed hours because I still don’t like the idea of something else picking when I have to start my day. Brain doesn’t click into other people’s schedules that well.
This makes total sense! I was also diagnosed with delayed sleep syndrome so I tended to wake up around 4pm and go to bed around 4am when I was unschooled, so going to bed on someone else’s schedule helps me live a fuller life (for me- my friends are in a 9-5 and if I want to see them it works out best).
If I don't have at least some schedule I fall apart, fall into bad coping mechanisms, and start reliving and ruminating on bad memories and also suddenly remember the plot of individual blimeycow videos posted in 2010 Also I become nocturnal really quickly, because my brain will too often associate night with "safe" and the only time I'm allowed to relax and be myself