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burnout?

Hang out here :sneakiness: But like Randy, I usually start doing the cleaning in the back room, rearrange the sales room, or get out my PFM and start looking at advertisers I might want to pick up. If that doesn't work, and I am not swamped with orders, I'll call in one of my part-timers and take a half day off to work in the garden.
 
Piddle with those fun things I have put off, Experiment with different mat designs for ready mades and such. Or watch netflix/hulu!
 
I find it hard to imagine that a young chick like you would ever get the 'blahs' Mikki! Especially since you have a new hobby!


However, an old bloke like me has had them for a couple of years now and I have hit on a solution...for me that is.....it's called 'retirement'! I've set the date for 20th December, with a fall back position of 23rd December, if necessary! Business is for sale, but it's unlikely to sell, so I'll close it down if it doesn't!
 
Ormond congrats on retiring!!! More time for those cute grands and for do other stuff!
I have my fingers crossed for the sale so you will have some dough to see the world!
 
Burnout or "the blahs?"

I think they're different.

Burnout - get another job or retire. Burnout is terminal. Been there, done that.

Most of the recommendations here sound like treatment for what I would call "the blahs."
Essentially, the best cure is to do "something else," temporarily more fun, for a bit.
 
Mikki Kavich said:
Ormond congrats on retiring!!! More time for those cute grands and for do other stuff!
I have my fingers crossed for the sale so you will have some dough to see the world!
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Thanks Mikki,
My needs are small so I'll be happy just to leave work and thinking about work behind me. Do more photography, some community work, visit family, buy an old caravan/camper to have a week or two in other parts from time to time.

I hope you leap right over the blahs and get your enthusiasm back quite quickly. Perhaps you need a short break from work? Maybe a week away visiting relos or friends in other parts!
 
Ormond my congrats as well, hope it sells.

Chickie has an LARGE collection of books on motivation, self help, out look, positive thinking, yadda yadda. I kinda come from...well, I have rather reinvented myself, shall we say. My folks were rather unambitious, kinda pessimistic, everything "Happens to us" kind of people. I work HARD on being a MAKE it happen kind of person. Years ago I put some of my fav books on the bookshelf next to my workbench.
I have a Zillion Pandora stations that read my mind/outlook by genre. Rather emotionally motivated gal, have ya noticed? (a LOT of us are these days and studies on "EI" emotional Intelligence, is adding to the heretofore ambiguity of what has often been chalked up as maniacal. Fascinating stuff.




And I pull out my fav teacup and make a cuppa Earl Grey.

And like RandyPants said, I clean and reorganize. Cleansers smelling fresh, a new look, a new display..they convey a positive outta what was formally a negative. AND CUSTOMERS notice.

Or...just eat Chocolate.
 
Cliff Wilson said:
Burnout or "the blahs?"

I think they're different.

Burnout - get another job or retire. Burnout is terminal. Been there, done that.

Most of the recommendations here sound like treatment for what I would call "the blahs."
Essentially, the best cure is to do "something else," temporarily more fun, for a bit.
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Cliff, you are right!

I think I had burnout after flying probably more than 2 million miles by air, on my old job, particularly after 9-11. So I retired from that - no more Sunday nights / Monday mornings to the airport, and Friday Nights flying back.

So I returned to something I loved doing back a long time ago.

:thumb:I returned to Framing. Try it you'll like it!
 
RANDY!!!! That was EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED!!!!!! A little dose of TJ!!!:smile-new::smile-new::smile-new::smile-new::smile-new::smile-new::smile-new::smile-new:

It's all about finding your happy!!

I hope everyone finds a smile today!

CLIFF>>>>>>>you way to serious man!
 
I have found that having wild mad passionate perferted orgasmic sex will revive me... everytime :love:
 
Ok, first... really Randy? Clean? If I don't have the energy to frame I sure am not going to clean. Gee wiz, I don't clean on good days. I pay someone to do that.

I do get burned out, a lot, and there's no getting a new job or retiring.

It is hard to get myself excited again. I take some me time if I can, even in the shop. I'm here, but I'll do some knitting or stitching or netflix just to get my brain back in sorts. Then, I try to frame something for me or for the shop that has a new skill to it. I do read the FC, the Grumble. My music choices have to change in the shop, more upbeat.

Honestly, and it is nerdy, Framing classes or getting together with other framers rev me up. Gets me excited to be in business and framing. Makes me want to frame more. Gets me out of the
"black frame, white mat" rut.

I am extremely lucky for today's technology to be able to talk to my framer friends through chat and email and phone, and that I can even drive to see other framers. Or fly.

-Sarah
 
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