Refresh and Recharge

Taking a break is just as important as the work itself!

I know that we are certainly at an intense time in the world, technologically and socially. There are so many crazy elements all converging at once. It can very often feel incredibly overwhelming to try and take it all in and navigate life itself at the same time! I know that I for sure struggle with some elements of it, and I think that I might be on the closer to the cutting edge than a number of people are.

With the work itself, that is rapidly changing and improving itself leaps and bounds. I think that one of the most important things for us to be able to do in order to give ourselves a bit of a mental refresher is take a break.. and that's indeed what I did after the chaos of recent events!

The company I work for went through some pretty substantial changes over the last few months, and hopefully we are on the right path now after some turbulence. For me, that meant quite a bit of intense working and long hours, which is always a difficult thing to be able to sustain. We are getting towards the end of that period where we have all kinds of chaos flying at us at once, though we aren't fully out of the woods yet.

This meant that I was working after my shift ended, after the little man went to sleep and it was tiring! I am not complaining about it that's for sure, because I am passionate about the work and things that I do, but I will say that it was mentally taxing!

Recently we took a small vacation, and boy did that feel good! I didn't realize how nice it was taking an extra day and doing something not work related. I did struggle to NOT check my phone when we were away, but there were some things that I didn't like about the hotel wifi we were at, so I opted to only connect once and then not again. After all, we are an important element at keeping our company safe!

Taking the mental refresher was very nice.. I felt like I worked a bit more efficiently the day I got back than I had in a week or two because of all the chaos. I think this is a really important thing to be able to do!

I also say this because I saw a picture of a billboard, though I don't know if it's legitimate or not.. but a company was advertising that you can replace pesky humans with AI because AI doesn't need to take any mental time to recharge. If this is a legitimate ad, and not some AI generated bullshit meant to stir controversy, then it's really insidious and goes to one of the things that really makes me skeptical of the whole AI fiasco.

Without going too much down that particular rabbit hole.. I will say that it's incredibly important that we push back on this type of mindset, because even if it's not real in that specific advertisement, it is for sure real in the minds of the crazy rich people to constantly siphon off more and more money from the humans who do the real work in the world.

Getting it back to the positive note though, having taken a day off was great. I am going to figure out how to schedule an extra day or two in the coming weeks so that I can further refresh and recharge myself! It's going to be a busy summer in terms of work, that's for sure. I am excited to dig into it though, because there is a lot of potential to make a serious positive impact that wasn't necessarily there before.

What about you, do you feel a lot better after taking a day or a few days off from work? Let me know in the comments!