There’s getting attached and there is just having an expectation of stability. It’s a poor assumption that even as a well-performing employee that your job is secure day to day. I have goals and aspirations, all of which go on hold when an event like this happens.

The superficial, shallow, and fleeting nature of work relationships is the primary reason I’m working to become financially independent from the system. I like working, but I don’t like being in a situation where I can be trashed at a moments notice and completely upheave my day-to-day and having to readjust my goals.

I’ve become so disenchanted with working for somebody else, during the pandemic I discovered how much happier I could be focusing exclusively on hobbies and familial/friend/romantic relationships so all of these get prioritized above working most of the time for me.