I feel like my ability to work in a focused, intelligent and productive manner is a very particular mental mode. Some days I can reach that mode for a few hours at a stretch. Nearly never 9-5 let alone the crazy hours that seem normal in the USA. Other days, I wish I had a culturally accepted way of saying "don't bother me, I won't be working".
Many's the day I've been sat in an office, reading Facebook on repeat, present in only the most physically literal sense, because my brain was not going to go into productive mode and trying to force it would be asking for a headache. But the cultural rules of "work" don't allow you to say "not today".
Many's the day I've been sat in an office, reading Facebook on repeat, present in only the most physically literal sense, because my brain was not going to go into productive mode and trying to force it would be asking for a headache. But the cultural rules of "work" don't allow you to say "not today".