this is so resonant to my experience of working as a college writing tutor (even as i had no option to go remote) the lights, the rushed mornings, all of it. it’s healing to hear you link it to neurodivergency which i began to understand and contextualize in myself the year i left the job. it’s almost as if understanding being autistic just made the job harder to handle, and no one at the workplace knowing or understanding. sending a lot of solidarity, compassion, and hope for your ability to shift to remote again. (also thank u so much for linking that tradwife essay!! super fascinating and inspiring for this on and off novel project i’ve had that’s sort of tradwife gothic)
Hi Andrea! Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Sending you solidarity and compassion as well. Thank you for reading and commenting! (and yes, that tradwife essay is soooo fascination!!!)
This speaks so much to me! I’ve been thinking wether I’m neurodivergent or not. I started a medical treatment for a recently diagnosed autoimmune disease and I’ve never felt as sensory overloaded as I feel now. I always preferred low light and quietness but I think this treatment (a bunch of pills) has enhanced that need. I also work fully remote and I can’t imagine going to an office anymore. All of what you describe are valid reasons to keep working from home but I hope it gets better with time and routine! Thanks for writing 💜
Yes! I truly wish we could all choose what's best for us in these situations and that we weren't forced into something we didn't like. Thank you for reading and commenting!
Thank you! I recently got my MLIS as well and had a hard time finding a hybrid, let alone fully remote, position in the field. I just needed a full time job and accepted my first offer. I work 5 days a week in-person with the "possibility" to WFH one day a week after I've worked there for *a year.* The overhead lights, rushing in the morning, having to get dressed every morning in "real clothes" even on bad sensory days, meal prep and having to eat lunch at a specific time, background noise while I try to do computer-based tasks, the feeling of my mask for hours at a time (and being the only one wearing a mask which adds to the loneliness of neurodivergence) ... I love librarianship but I can't possibly do my best work in this environment. My therapist is encouraging me to stay just long enough to have this as a good line on my CV & move on to a gentler work environment as soon as I can.
Oh wow, I can't believe you have to go in 5 days a week! That's ridiculous!!! I'm so sorry. And yeah, I couldn't find anything in library world that would offer hybrid, let alone fully remote. And yes, all that you said: the overhead lights, having to dress a certain way, noise, ugh, it's all too damn much! I hope you can get a hybrid or remote job soon!!!
Right?! Ugh. I know the freelance life can be precarious, but I honestly hope to do it someday because I know it would be better for my mental health. Thank you for reading,
I mean Anis Nin wrote Henry and June....or like I said Charles Bukowsi .....write what you know and believe in...🤗
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this is so resonant to my experience of working as a college writing tutor (even as i had no option to go remote) the lights, the rushed mornings, all of it. it’s healing to hear you link it to neurodivergency which i began to understand and contextualize in myself the year i left the job. it’s almost as if understanding being autistic just made the job harder to handle, and no one at the workplace knowing or understanding. sending a lot of solidarity, compassion, and hope for your ability to shift to remote again. (also thank u so much for linking that tradwife essay!! super fascinating and inspiring for this on and off novel project i’ve had that’s sort of tradwife gothic)
Hi Andrea! Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Sending you solidarity and compassion as well. Thank you for reading and commenting! (and yes, that tradwife essay is soooo fascination!!!)
Hopefully you can go back to just 2 days..doctor recommend?
I doubt it. I already had to get 1 accommodate to not attend a big meeting in person...
This speaks so much to me! I’ve been thinking wether I’m neurodivergent or not. I started a medical treatment for a recently diagnosed autoimmune disease and I’ve never felt as sensory overloaded as I feel now. I always preferred low light and quietness but I think this treatment (a bunch of pills) has enhanced that need. I also work fully remote and I can’t imagine going to an office anymore. All of what you describe are valid reasons to keep working from home but I hope it gets better with time and routine! Thanks for writing 💜
Yes! I truly wish we could all choose what's best for us in these situations and that we weren't forced into something we didn't like. Thank you for reading and commenting!
Thank you! I recently got my MLIS as well and had a hard time finding a hybrid, let alone fully remote, position in the field. I just needed a full time job and accepted my first offer. I work 5 days a week in-person with the "possibility" to WFH one day a week after I've worked there for *a year.* The overhead lights, rushing in the morning, having to get dressed every morning in "real clothes" even on bad sensory days, meal prep and having to eat lunch at a specific time, background noise while I try to do computer-based tasks, the feeling of my mask for hours at a time (and being the only one wearing a mask which adds to the loneliness of neurodivergence) ... I love librarianship but I can't possibly do my best work in this environment. My therapist is encouraging me to stay just long enough to have this as a good line on my CV & move on to a gentler work environment as soon as I can.
Oh wow, I can't believe you have to go in 5 days a week! That's ridiculous!!! I'm so sorry. And yeah, I couldn't find anything in library world that would offer hybrid, let alone fully remote. And yes, all that you said: the overhead lights, having to dress a certain way, noise, ugh, it's all too damn much! I hope you can get a hybrid or remote job soon!!!
So resonant! I have learned similar things about myself. Thank you for sharing so openly/ bravely about what a struggle it can be to conform.
Thanks so much for reading, Camille!
Right?! Ugh. I know the freelance life can be precarious, but I honestly hope to do it someday because I know it would be better for my mental health. Thank you for reading,
Chanél!