Journal: Sustainable Vignettes

Sustainability is a bit of a bugaboo for me. Not really meant as a buzzword. Not like compliance. Bit of a word that gets thrown around at work. I cringe anytime someone mentions compliance. Nobody ever invokes that word if they have anything good to say.

I think I've mentioned before that I really try to find things that are sustainable. Things that I can continue day after day and week after week. Not easy, I can tell you. Work is draining, stressful, but not all the time. It's the motivation that gets drained out of you. The thing after thing after thing. It isn't even that there is always tons to do. There are breaks. Waves. Problem is that there never really are big breaks. Not really possible to take time away from work because there is always another important deadline right around the corner and there simply aren't enough people to take up the slack. This is where the drain really seeps in and creates its own problem. Energy and morale go down just a little bit more. Takes longer to get less done. Creates its own stress. Repeat.

Not my point outside of mentioning that work takes its toll. This requires time to rest while not at work. This leaves less leisure time that can be sacrificed to the stuff one would really much rather wish one were doing. Writing music. Composing fiction. Vomiting up amusingly anecdotal journal entries. Shit like that.

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