About 1½ month ago, I started working flexible work hours, often from home. It means that I'm in charge of my own little work area, and that I get to decide a lot of things.…
In this post I'll talk about how to write a proposal for a conference. I love attending conferences. I also enjoy speaking at them a lot. So I hope this will help some people out there who…
Stage 7. Started up side-projects. I'd learned that I need daily social contact, and a project of sorts. And since there wasn't any for me, I had to make them myself. Thus I started up small, weird side-projects. Most of them only exist in my head to this date, but it felt good planning and making things. Most of them only exist in my head to this date, but it felt good planning and making things.
Stage 6. Got to know myself. With at least some surplus of energy, but no upcoming project, I did a free Myers-Briggs test. And another. I took other free tests, and even if they are nowhere near a holy grail, it got me thinking about who I am and how I work.
Stage 5. Got fit! I decided that I had to get that stress out of my body. And the best way to do that, is to exercise. I would also benefit from having a daily goal, something I had to do, now that I couldn't go to work every day.
Stage 4. Despaired some more. I began to worry that I was heading towards stress... As in, medical stress, not the everyday "Oh my god I'm so stressed". I had problems sleeping at night, I never made it to an interview even though several people confirmed that my CV was great. My colleagues were great at supporting me and told me that a new project would come any day now. Some days it helped, most days it didn't. I felt horrible..