I am feeling very isolated and apart from the majority of people at work. I’m not into sports or fitness really and most everyone there is. And my boss does everything possible, subtle and obvious, to make me feel alienated within my small team of four. So today I’m feeling it a bit deeply - I don’t belong there. And it’s not a good feeling. It makes me feel alone with who I am. I’m an older hippie working with twenty and thirty somethings whose lives exist on social media and tictok. There’s two people who like the same music as me but one of them wrote a poor peer review of me so I don’t like her. So I am different. I even had up a tapestry at my cube, of the ocean and dolphins. I took it down after a year. That’s when I started trying to be more a part of the team by wearing the company’s sneakers and apparel like everyone else. I am sacrificing and cutting off parts of myself bit by bit and day by day, just to survive there. I hate it now. I found an awesome looking job to apply for so I am working on my application this weekend. I am now going on the hunt for a new job. This one is not working for me.