Back to Work After 2 1/2 Years

[coffeeandweed]

So I started a new job today. Nothing like my last job at a multinational world-leader company in the aquaculture industry. Way too many higher-ups coming around from the ivory tower sniffing up my ass for my tolerance to stress.

Nope, I went from couch potato right into planting them today at a vegetable farm. Nice little small-time place, 12 acres, roadside honour-system vegetable stand, right next to a big-time recreational fishing river where the sea trout will be running in a few weeks.

No arrogant boss spouting verbal abuse at the drop of a hat, just a soft-spoken farmer and a couple more guys like myself. I showed up with a couple pipes I made, knowing full well that somebody would be able to make use of them. I like to make a first impression making gifts of things I make. I'll do up something special for the boss.

But anyways, the tedium of doing that would make a normal person cringe and run, well, it caters right to my hyper-focus. So peaceful and quiet, unlike a couple dozen pumps, blowers, fans, motors around me. The running water is a beautiful river rather than 10m tanks full of 100,000 fish per.

Hmm... seems like I may have been just Journaling a bit. Haven't done that for a while. But anyway, it's only mid-April and in Canada there's not much that can go yet, so we'll be starting slow and picking up. Good thing; I'm gonna have to to do a whole load of getting back in shape.

[STEM_Dad]

Congrats on the new job. Glad the working environment and conditions are so much better than you had to deal with before.

I'm hoping that it's restorative for you, the way my current job has been for me.

[coffeeandweed]

Thanks for the good words man. I think it'll be pretty good for my mind, just a killer on the arthritis.

I was showing off some of my woodwork in the morning and made a couple trades. Nice way make a first impression. Now they're eager to see the project I'm presently working on. I recently spent a week and a half designing and building a crossbow from the ground up to the functional stage. Now I'm making it ergonomic and more efficient with energy transfer. Oh, and I'm prettifying it too. Can't properly show it off if it don't look right.

Toys for Big Boys

[EnthusiasticNovice in reply to coffeeandweed]

Wow!! Geeking out just a little bit. Sounds like it's super fulfilling

[coffeeandweed in reply to EnthusiasticNovice]

Geeking out is the only way to go. A little physics from university, a little aerodynics from the Canadian Air Force, and the rest is creativity.

[EnthusiasticNovice]

Congratulations on the new job! It sounds amazing. Same here, I've been in and out of jobs for the last two years, due to a massive burnout. All I want is quiet work out in nature. Best of luck, and thanks for sharing!

[coffeeandweed in reply to EnthusiasticNovice]

Thanks a lot. It may be just the place for the next six years until retirement.

[coffeeandweed]

Work is going good, in that this year it's not flat-out nuts so I can work into it. I'm pretty sore today, but the ground is still wet from a rain and there's nothing ready to put down at present.

But all things considered, it's a big boost to my mental health. Since things are optimum for hyper-focus in the tedium of it I let myself go natural. I work with a guy with ADHD so maybe there's something to it.

I backed off on my Effexor again a couple weeks ago, and I had the period of major zapping and confusion and stuff. I'm reaching a plateau of sorts now with a little clearer perception of my environment due to coming out of a fog somewhere in the back of my consciousness and/or subconscious. That brings me from: 600mg Tegretol to 200, making no difference in controlling nonexistent seizures anyway; 375mg of Effexor to 150, back into the safe area; and potentially off the Concerta but I'll keep some around for bad days when I'm not working. All those are reuptake inhibitors for noradrenaline, so maybe there was just a wee bit of interaction there? Hmm...

[starsallover]

I'm so grateful you found this, just sitting back feeling grateful in your honor, I hope this has been going well and things are working in your favor.