Coming to terms with the new normal of our daily workplaces

Country Living with Francis Farragher

ON the greater scale of problems that we all have to face, it should never be too high up on the list, but yet when one moves house or workplace, there does tend to be little tinges of sadness with the transition, regardless of how hard-hearted we can all pretend to be.

Putting the bits and pieces of mostly materially worthless trivia into boxes for the move to the next home can still evoke memories of times good and bad; happy and sad; serious and comic — but all of which do evoke some little tug of the heartstrings.

We all age so gradually that at times we think haven’t changed at all over the past 30 years but then as a picture is resurrected from an old drawer, the realisation dawns that the world of youth has long passed us by.

Of course, there is absolutely no point in getting melancholic about what is, after all, the natural way of the world, and the overarching philosophy has to be, to live one day at a time and give it our best shot.

Whatever about a workplace shift, there are countless surveys and psychological studies that puts moving house high up there in the stress graph of life.

Buying or selling a house is, by all accounts, an absolute cesspit of traumas and is rated by most psychologists as well up there in the top-10 of ‘times in your life’ when you really feel under pressure.

Last year, UK property website Real Homes cited a survey of 2,000 homeowners, 40% of whom voted moving house as the ‘most nerve-wracking’ life-changing assignment that they had ever experienced . . .  even ahead of divorce, having a baby, or starting a new job.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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