As introverts, it is easy to feel very misunderstood. I decided I wanted to write some articles to try to show extroverts just how we think and feel! If you haven’t read the first article in the series, go check out Understanding the Introvert – Social Events. This is the second of five articles to help extroverts get inside our heads.
For extroverts, any time with other people charges their batteries so to speak. For us introverts, people are like apps that suck the battery life out of us! Our recharging comes from alone time, quiet time, time reflecting. Work is an evil necessity to make money in order to pay bills but unless you are one of the lucky ones who has a job that is an introvert’s dream, work is a huge stressor. So let’s go through a day in the life of a working introvert. Warning: Could be a trigger for related sympathy pains from other introverts!
- Laying here, in the darkness, wondering what time it is and how long I have to sleep till the alarm goes off. And of course, I can’t go back to sleep because I’m afraid I’ll oversleep.
- Dang it! I hit the snooze button too many times because I was tired from being awake and now I’m late! UGH!
- Repeating my mantra as I drive to work “It’s going to be a good day. It’s going to be a good day.”
- Sitting in car trying to convince myself to actually get out and go in to work
- Nooooo….here comes Ray of Sunshine! She has to be an alien. NO ONE wakes up that happy and energetic every single day! Maybe if I avoid eye contact she won’t see me.
- Meeting icebreaker?! Oh NO!!!! What do I say, what do I say?! (Practice 15 times what my name is, my title and my favorite color so I don’t mess it up)
- Try to concentrate on the project that is due first thing in the morning but can’t because Ed is coughing up a lung, Sue has her radio playing music no one wants to listen to and the whole left side of the office is talking so much that it sounds like the low rumble of an earthquake.
- Only 30 minutes left until my shift ends! (feels like 30 hours)
- That one co-worker catches you as you are leaving to remind you of something stupid and keeps you over by 10 minutes.
- Drive home trying to keep blood pressure under the explosion zone
- Pull into the garage, shut the door and collapse.
Hopefully this made you smile. Watch for the next article in the series!
