In my first, like serious full-time job after college, I was working in the admissions office. And a – my — I guess was I still dating him then? A friend, or boyfriend, or whatever came to visit me, and I took the day off or afternoon off and we went to a movie in the middle of the day. And the reason that stands out to me is that it felt — really thrilling? And really, um, sort of like countercultural. You know kind of like I was doing something wrong. Which made it really exciting, and it was very atypical for me. I mean, I’m, I’m very — I don’t always stay on task, but I do tend to like show up, you know, I tend to be responsible and, um, and I thought about that like since even since then, it is really rare for me to take a day off just because. I feel like it’s ingrained in people, in my generation, that, you know, if you’re taking a day off from work, even if you — even if there’s a policy at your workplace that makes it completely okay to do this, like, there has to be a good reason.
You know, like it’s a sick day, you’re feeling sick or you’re going on vacation, you know, or somebody’s coming to work on the house and you have to let them in or, you know, whatever. But just to take the day off, because you felt like it? Or you wanted to go do something fun or frivolous? Just seemed like, you know, you’re breaking some kind of rule.