The current pandemic, or \u201csituation\u201d as you will, has really turned things on its head. For the most part, it has totally changed the way people are working – from being furloughed, having to socially distance at work, changes in work activities\/tasks, to working from home (and I am sure there are many stages in between).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For me, I\u2019ve been working from home for three months now. And whilst working from home has never bothered me before, I feel it\u2019s starting to take its toll. Not only in terms of becoming increasingly harder to differentiate home from work, and vice versa, but also the fact the working day is stretching out to 10+ hour days. It\u2019s really made me rethink my career path and personal priorities – I find myself questioning whether this is really the career I want? Do I really want to work for an industry that takes advantage of people having to work from home and tries to squeeze more out of them, because\u2026 well \u2026 what else do they have to do? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Am I really<\/em> happy in what I do?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you ask, most people would say they want to contribute to something meaningful. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s particularly from a place of blind faith, naivety, or cynicism of the corporate world, I think it\u2019s more personal than that. It\u2019s simply just wanting to do<\/em> better and be<\/em> better, because life is so finite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do I want to quit my career and become a missionary? No. But I do want more for myself – perhaps it\u2019s the current world we live in making me forget my sense of purpose. Either way, I want to see the positivity of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The current pandemic, or \u201csituation\u201d as you will, has really turned things on its head. For the most part, it has totally changed the way people are working – from being furloughed, having to socially distance at work, changes in work activities\/tasks, to working from home (and I am sure there are many stages in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[44,45,46,4,20,14,43,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}