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Originally Posted by bcrdukes
RS is my mental health space and has been for 20+ years.
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Same with RS as my mental health space
But also going out to be social etc, plenty of free events around like networking/socials/meet-ups. Just getting out there to do anything and having a human interaction with someone goes along way - something that I wasn't doing before.
I had a conversation with a friend yesterday who was going through a crisis, similar to my last one about career/life and how behind he felt, so I pushed him to go to a networking event. Then he hit me with the "woe is me" and how salty he felt about the transactional nature of networking - but I think that's a mindset thing. If you reframe it about community building and empowering the ecosystem (for your industry/passion), you'll have a significantly more impactful and enjoyable time. Vancouver is incredibly collaborative and most people are happy to talk about themselves/their projects/lend a hand (show their expertise), lean into it instead of being a bitch about it is what I told my friend.
Anyway, I got my friend out of the house, and he ended up having an awesome time and "networking has begun to heal my workplace trauma"