Overworked And Underfucked

Here’s To Reversing The Trend Next Year

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Long hours, dwindling cash, hard labor, quiet quitting, shrinkflation.

We’ve all had a tumultuous post-Covid year. Working around the clock to make our marks: hustling, bustling, fire-fighting. The rat race kept us on the treadmill — busting our gut, giving it our all, firing on all cylinders, and hoping for a shining beacon at the end of the tunnel.

As we enter the season to be jolly again, I reckon it’s a good time to take stock and reflect on a mental year.

Reflection sheds light while being overworked sucks it.

We over-performed at work and made bank. But at what cost? Did we forge unforgettable memories and lifelong connections? Did we smile often, take risks, sleep like the dead, ate fresh, and kiss our partners like never before? Did we make our mothers proud?

Did we dread, worry, overthink, or procrastinate? Did we feel pain, passion, grief, anger, remorse, triumph, or sorrow? Did we feel alive or did we simply live? Did we get our wants and meet our needs? Did we break records, laugh maniacally, forgive, and forget? Did we stoke our intrinsic flames of ambition? Did we think big and act bigger?

Should we?

Let’s close out this year remembering our sacrifices, effort, and graft. And take a much-needed break from the madness. Let’s regroup, recuperate, rejoice, and restart.

Let’s go harder, stronger, faster, and better in the new year.

Remember folks — the best is yet to come.