Mountain human, I hope your new gig goes well! I find that the more places I work, the more information I have about what I don't want in a company or job

I think pain and misery can be a motivator, but we can get to a point in a bad situation where we are so beaten down that the escape route is no longer obvious or clear. Like if a country's people are lying down in ditches starving to death, they aren't going to think about revolting. It's the people who currently have some access to food but who think they are going to lose it in the future that are the ones who will start a revolution.

That's not my issue right now - I am not overwhelmingly miserable, more just perpetually annoyed... but still unmotivated to do the work I need to do to change the situation... or really, to prepare for the inevitable end. I am working part-time and plan on turning down any full time job offer. When I turn down the offer, I will probably lose the part time work, so I am kind of just biding my time.

Jobs kind of suck in general. I am getting a lot of social needs met, needs I didn't even know I had, but other than that, it's a time drain that makes me tired and cranky.