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Ep 162: Permission to Quietly Quit & Try Something Else + Mindful Reiki Meditation
Ep 162 | Permission to Quietly Quit & Try Something Else + Mindful Reiki Meditation
If you haven’t heard the concept of “quiet quitting” bouncing around your social media, let me tell you: If it is for someone's Highest Good, I’m all for it.
“Quiet quitting” is a means by which you can take back your power and worth by doing the work explicitly necessary to do your job. Quiet quitting is an application of work-to-rule, in which employees work within defined work hours and engage in work-related activities solely within those hours. The motivation and reasons behind quiet quitting appear to vary among individuals. Some won't take on additional tasks and projects because they are underpaid, burned out or experiencing work-family conflict – or because they dislike their boss.
I read this article published on Nov 2, 2022, via WAFB 9:
This doesn’t surprise me. I almost worked myself to death when I was a producer in TV. I was working 18-hour days, 7 days a week at times. I look back now I have so much compassion for that burnt-out, tired, zombie of a girl. There were years that went by that I lived at work. In fact there were many times I slept in edit bays. The culture was to live at work. I loved working in TV, so if I didn’t do x, y, z, then would I lose my dream job? So I better get on board with the abusive way of working.
But at the end of the day, those jobs, those companies, those tv shows, the people who encouraged me to overwork, overexert, to not have time to take lunch, dinner, or breaks, to sleep in the edit bay – they weren’t around paying my healthcare bills when I got pneumonia when I was traumatized on a set by a raging boss and disassociated so hard that it took me months to re-embody. I was left to on my devices, feeling scared, broken, helpless, powerless, hopeless, in pain (physically, mentally, and emotionally), but it was the tiredness that was the worst part of all of it. I was so exhausted from going, going and going, doing, doing, and doing. It was like I woke up one day, and huge portions of my life had gone by because I was living to work instead of living to live. Work had become more important than my human. In order to get healthy, I had to escape the very environment that taught me to become enslaved. I had to walk away from the community that made it permissible to abuse people. I can't tell you how many times people put a blind eye to mistreatment. Because I was in the system, I was part of it. I would try to do my part to stand up, yet the system is so broken that it exhausts you. You feel defeated, deflated, and worn out. It wears you down. It isn’t okay to put work before a person. The system de-humanizes people.
I miss working in TV, yet I don’t miss the ugliness of the broken system. I came out of it unhealthy – in body, mind, and soul. The healing process was difficult, scary, and long. It wasn’t an overnight, poof I am better. But it was a gift because now I have a higher quality of life than I ever had before. I look back to the day I walked away from TV and it was my own version of quiet quitting. You can do it with care, compassion, loving-kindness, and in abundance. Tune in to hear more!
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By Henri Hébert
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Ep 162 | Permission to Quietly Quit & Try Something Else + Mindful Reiki Meditation
If you haven’t heard the concept of “quiet quitting” bouncing around your social media, let me tell you: If it is for someone's Highest Good, I’m all for it.
“Quiet quitting” is a means by which you can take back your power and worth by doing the work explicitly necessary to do your job. Quiet quitting is an application of work-to-rule, in which employees work within defined work hours and engage in work-related activities solely within those hours. The motivation and reasons behind quiet quitting appear to vary among individuals. Some won't take on additional tasks and projects because they are underpaid, burned out or experiencing work-family conflict – or because they dislike their boss.
I read this article published on Nov 2, 2022, via WAFB 9:
This doesn’t surprise me. I almost worked myself to death when I was a producer in TV. I was working 18-hour days, 7 days a week at times. I look back now I have so much compassion for that burnt-out, tired, zombie of a girl. There were years that went by that I lived at work. In fact there were many times I slept in edit bays. The culture was to live at work. I loved working in TV, so if I didn’t do x, y, z, then would I lose my dream job? So I better get on board with the abusive way of working.
But at the end of the day, those jobs, those companies, those tv shows, the people who encouraged me to overwork, overexert, to not have time to take lunch, dinner, or breaks, to sleep in the edit bay – they weren’t around paying my healthcare bills when I got pneumonia when I was traumatized on a set by a raging boss and disassociated so hard that it took me months to re-embody. I was left to on my devices, feeling scared, broken, helpless, powerless, hopeless, in pain (physically, mentally, and emotionally), but it was the tiredness that was the worst part of all of it. I was so exhausted from going, going and going, doing, doing, and doing. It was like I woke up one day, and huge portions of my life had gone by because I was living to work instead of living to live. Work had become more important than my human. In order to get healthy, I had to escape the very environment that taught me to become enslaved. I had to walk away from the community that made it permissible to abuse people. I can't tell you how many times people put a blind eye to mistreatment. Because I was in the system, I was part of it. I would try to do my part to stand up, yet the system is so broken that it exhausts you. You feel defeated, deflated, and worn out. It wears you down. It isn’t okay to put work before a person. The system de-humanizes people.
I miss working in TV, yet I don’t miss the ugliness of the broken system. I came out of it unhealthy – in body, mind, and soul. The healing process was difficult, scary, and long. It wasn’t an overnight, poof I am better. But it was a gift because now I have a higher quality of life than I ever had before. I look back to the day I walked away from TV and it was my own version of quiet quitting. You can do it with care, compassion, loving-kindness, and in abundance. Tune in to hear more!