Your Creative Career

9The Comfort of Change

You’ve been feeling the need to change for a while now. You know there are options, but you don’t dare to explore them. Working days pass, filled to the brim with tasks—you hardly have the time to catch a breath. You feel the urge of checking things off the list. You focus on the tasks that have immediate or past-due deadlines, which will provide instant gratification. At nights, you try to socialize, meet your friends, date. When the weekend comes, you need to rejuvenate; you’re so tired that you need at least half a day to do absolutely nothing, then run errands, do some more socializing maybe or working out, having neglected it during the week. And once again, you’re not excited to start another week. On Sunday night, ...