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I don't know where you live, what your budget is, or whether it's an option but if it is - try going part time for a bit. It opens up time for other things in a really significant way and almost forces your job to be relegated to "just a job". The simple act of "sorry I can't make that meeting, it's my day off" can push you do spend that time on something meaningful and put up healthy mental barriers around work.

It may not be something you want to maintain forever, but dropping down to 3-4 days a week for a year or so can be super refreshing.



In fact just starting to say things like “sorry I can't make that meeting, it's my day off” or “it’s my off time” even in a full time job can make your life so much better. Or at least make you leave that job if that’s met with resistance.

Most of the time and I mean most of the time people add you to odd hour work or more work because you don’t say no.




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