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Can't wait to try it! I love what they did with 1.2
Update: I'm happy to report that the new Shape Builder tool works really well and is very intuitive to use.
Thank you for sharing!
I went through a corporate buyout and was laid off from my last job. The company changed direction and didn't need the whole branch I was in.
I'm happy you've found your rhythm. That sounds great!
"Sabbatical" is a new concept to me as well. Where I'm from, they are unpaid.
I do subscribe to the idea that you should definitely provide a sufficient value to earn a paycheck and I do like the idea to first look inwards for the problem. I don't think what you described is a sustainable way to live though. Expectations are external and you don't have much, if any, control over them. If "not being at 100% of expectations is the same as suicide" for a long period of time, than that mindset itself is suicide. How can you always meet a 100% of something you have no control over?
Don't get me wrong, I know people's situations are vastly different and sometimes you do what you have to do at a given time to survive. But if you operate like that for a long-time, I don't think your psyche will stay intact.
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
30% more productive sounds great!
Thank you!
I should probably do something similar and mute all my notifications from work after work-hours. Sometimes people like to explain tasks for me in the evening to not forget them the next day. It really doesn't help with unwinding.
Thank you for sharing!
I like your mental game! I've been doing something similar but maybe not as in-depth.
Thank you for sharing!
I do try to remind myself that work is always there waiting for me. Even with the unmet weekly goals the work just transfers to the next week.
As for hobbies - I love drawing as well. I used to do it regularly. I do have unfinished sketchbooks but my workplace isn't somewhere I can really draw. I probably should actively try to pursue that again. It's somewhat therapeutic and takes my mind off of things.
Thanks again!
Yeah, that's sound advice! Thank you very much!
Thank you!
Thank you very much for the insight!
The last paragraph is what I was suspecting from the start.
I appreciate your response!
Best of luck to you too!
You pinpointed all the pain points at my workplace. We are a startup, understaffed, in my opinion, and long estimates are frowned upon. Our main project is what we were hired for, so transferring is also not an option.
Thanks for chiming in!
I do take short breaks (one or two days at the end or the beginning of the week) but not too often, because we are understaffed, and my vacation would mean more work load for my colleagues.
Thank you for the advice!
Caring less might certainly help. It just feels wrong to me to take the paycheck and not put my heart into the work. Maybe some kind of a balance could be found.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
I've never seriously kept a thought diary. I've kept a "thought dump" but I might try to write down more thoughtful notes and later try to go over them more critically.
I especially like your idea of keeping regular contact with management about delays. It reminded me that I've actually done that a couple of times and it really felt liberating. Like... taking actual responsibility and not hiding it, but at the same time... somehow sharing the responsibility because you obviously can't handle the task at hand alone.
Thank you sincerely for this comment!
I appreciate your advice and I've added a bit more information! Thank you!
Has anyone managed to recover from а serious burnout without taking a sabbatical? How?
I've noticed (with the help of family members and my SO) that I've become very negative, cynical and drained lately. Reading about burnout, I find all of the symptoms to be true for myself.
My job requires me to work on a single project full-time, and a couple of small side-projects. The management of the project is very chaotic and I feel more and more inadequate for my position. Priorities constantly change and just looking at the week's schedule in Monday, I can tell the we're not going meet the set goal by Friday. It has been like that for more than a year. It doesn't help that I've become very pessimistic about the main project's future.
Outside of work, I don't have much free time. The little I have, I try to spend with my loved ones. Hobbies and other interests are on the back burner.
As the title implies, I don't have the option of quitting or taking a sabbatical at the moment.
I know kbin is not a replacement for therapy but I was just wondering if anyone has been through this and found anything helpful other that distancing from their current workplace.
So far this is the best answer in here.
Just choose something you can wrap your head around and start from there. No need to jump to anything complicated like Arch linux.
I first started gaming on openSUSE and then moved to Fedora. Can't say I don't have to look around for answers to run some games but I'm more than happy with the experience in general. I play some older games like Deus Ex, Baldur's gate and such, but I also play Cyberpunk 2077, Stray and Marvel's Spider-man Remastered without any real issues.
Also, let's be realistic about it - arm yourself with a bit of patience, because the process of installing games could be as simple as clicking install and then play, but it could also require some tinkering to get some games running smoothly.
Oh, man! It's moving up my "must find time to play" list!
Do you play with a controller or keyboard and mouse?
Thank you so much for giving me so much information!
I'll definitely start with the first game. Maybe I'll do a follow-up post or and edit to this one, when I finally get my hands on it.
I really appreciate the advice!
It has been sitting in my backlog for a while now. I've heard very good things about it. Please share your impressions if you do play it!
Thank you very much for the tips! I'll wait and see if I can get the first game on a discount then.
Any advice for playing Baldur's Gate for the first time in 2023?
Hey, Patient Gamers!
A while ago I bought Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition on GOG and I think it's time to finally try it. Do you have any advice for a new player? I do enjoy DnD and I've played a handful of cRPGs, but I'm not an expert by any measure.
Other than any advice for playing the game, I'd appreciate if you share your opinion on whether you think I should play the first Baldur's Gate before playing the second? I read somewhere that it's not a big loss to skip it.