Well I'm staring my new job today (just going in for a few hours this afternoon) at the small design firm in a town that rhymes with Meeland
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Good change is still change, and all change has a mindfuck element.
Tom had a bit of an intellectual wedgie in the days leading up to his new job too, but he loves it, and now that he's settled in, the things he was uneasy about (mostly the loss of free time, and the wish he'd done something more with it) have downshifted into more garden-variety "meh" annoyances ("bummer that I don't have days free any more, but now I have money instead, so eh"). I think that any big change involves a little mental sifting and weighing; it's how your brain processes the situation, and even good change has some parts that look like a downside, and you need to let yourself react to that bit too.
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Tom had a bit of an intellectual wedgie in the days leading up to his new job too, but he loves it, and now that he's settled in, the things he was uneasy about (mostly the loss of free time, and the wish he'd done something more with it) have downshifted into more garden-variety "meh" annoyances ("bummer that I don't have days free any more, but now I have money instead, so eh"). I think that any big change involves a little mental sifting and weighing; it's how your brain processes the situation, and even good change has some parts that look like a downside, and you need to let yourself react to that bit too.
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