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Work Has Never Loved You: It Never Will
Why the great resignation is the best thing to happen to humanity and Joe Biden was wrong to call for people to go back to the office
If there ever was any such thing as a model employee, it was me.
During my time as Chief Operating Officer of the property arm of a conglomerate, I would wake up at 3 in the morning to work our for 90 minutes and then get ready for work.
I usually got to my desk for 530am to commence work, often subsisting on coffee till midday, stopping for lunch and getting back to umpteen meetings and various deadlines till it’s time to go home, which is usually somewhere around 8 or 9 at night.
Weekends weren’t out of the question either.
Work consumed me more than anything else in my life and as I wrote in one of my previous articles, my self-esteem was inextricably linked to the status that I had from my employment. In my view, I was uber passionate about making a difference and I was a bit successful.
That was of course, until the 17th of February 2020, when I got my marching orders from my erstwhile employers in the most ignominious way imaginable.
My dismissal was mitigated by the fact that a once-in- a-lifetime event took place only a month later, when the entire world completely ground to a halt.