50. How to stop wanting to escape your job

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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🗓️ 25 August 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever thought: "If only I could quit my job, everything would be better." And you daydream about following your passions, or traveling, or going after that business idea you've always fantasized about?

But you know, deep down, that you will never quit your office job, for whatever reason. And that depresses you.

Well, hopefully today's episode will make you feel a bit better. It talks about how these types of dreams often have little grounding in reality. They are wishful goals that haven't been set, so they can't be reached. Reaching for these unset goals can only leave you disappointed.

NOTE: There is something I should have said in this episode that I forgot to include. Everything I talk about in this episode is my personal opinion from life experiences. I generalize "office jobs" and realize that all jobs and situations are different. These tips might not apply to you and your job situation, so please take it with a grain of salt.

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Podcast music attribution: Bust This Bust That (Professor Kliq) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

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0:00.0	Welcome to the highly sensitive person podcast, a twice monthly podcast for people who experience the world intensely.
0:11.1	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.
0:17.8	Welcome to episode 50. I'm your host, Kelly. This is a show about people with sensory processing sensitivity.
0:26.6	I talk about issues related to being highly sensitive, sometimes I rant, and share personal stories.
0:33.3	You know me, I like to get right to the point, so let's go. Today's episode is for those of you out
0:39.4	there who dream about quitting your office job. Maybe you think, if only I could quit this job,
0:47.1	things would be better. But you feel like you just can't quit your job. Maybe you have a family
0:52.5	to support and need money and health insurance, or
0:55.3	you just make too much money to quit and leave it all behind. Or you think it's just too late and
1:01.2	too difficult for you to pursue a new career. You wish you could follow your passion or
1:06.6	finally try that business idea you've always had in the back of your mind. And not being able to do that
1:12.5	makes you feel stifled and trapped. You fear that you'll regret not going after your dream someday.
1:20.6	This stupid job is making you miserable, maybe even depressed and unhealthy. If only you could do what you wanted to do. Have you been
1:30.8	able to relate to anything I've just said? If not, then this episode might not hold any meaning for you.
1:37.3	But if it does sound like you, hopefully this episode will be a little helpful. Because everything I
1:43.8	just described was the way I used to feel
1:46.3	and sometimes still do. I thought if only I could escape the cubicle, finally everything would be
1:54.4	great and I would be happy. I would be able to control my environment, where I worked, and when I
1:59.8	worked, and I could choose fulfilling work.
2:02.6	I would be able to do what I wanted to do.
2:06.1	As you probably know, HSPs are very aware of our physical environment.
2:11.6	If something in our office bothers us, temperature, uncomfortable chairs or desk, our neck and wrists hurt, or it smells bad, it's
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