It was funny my boss at work made a really strange comment to me last week after I commented about being nervous about a class I will teach in a few weeks. He commented that it is a sign that "you are STARTING to engage in life AGAIN"!?!?! He is such a strange person. Just because I don't love my job, does not mean that I am some depressed, sulking person not "engaged in life". Scientists are such strange people. They live every minute of their life for their science/work and think that everyone working in science should be the same. So even scientists can be quite simple minded people sometimes.
Some people love their work, but that stopped for me quite a few years ago. My boss and coworkers know this. Of course they would love for me to go back to what I was before: some hyper productive worker, producing 5x what everyone else in the group does. But that will not happen again. They try with all sorts of passive aggressive and provocative statements. But my eyes have been opened to the difference between work and life outside of work. I think it is actually more healthy to put just as much energy into ones personal life outside work as the energy one puts into work. Outside work should NOT be some "I am so exhausted from work all I can do is eat, sleep and watch a little tv".
Anyone who truly understands me, actually knows that I am someone who is engaged in life to the fullest. Just another reminder of how much I have changed since coming to Japan and how I am not even close to the person I was 5 or 10 years ago.
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