turns out i like work (ew) | the difference between busy and burned out

Hi friend. One of my biggest incentives for not returning to corporate after I was laid off in the spring was to have more control over my time. I was absolutely drained: at the peak of a burnout cycle, days away from a major launch I'd been leading for months, to-my-bones exhausted of endless back-to-back meetings and the impossible question of fitting my actual work into the margins of my day. For at least a month after getting let go, I found myself crashing at 3pm every day, my body...