Help! I’m burned out. I was home with my kids for 10 years and went back to work when my husband retired. I’m post menopausal and the brain fog is real. At work I keep being marked for errors and have been put on a 90 day PIP. Maybe I need to be a cashier somewhere quiet where the hardest thing to do is balance at the end of the day. I don’t feel like I will get through the PIP and I don’t think I have the bandwidth to do anything with complexity. I have no draw for anything specific. So tired.

I have always been a very lazy/demotivated person. I don’t workout, I don’t read, I don’t eat healthy. I just sleep all day on weekends. I have become a little more active since getting in a relationship, but that too has its upper limit. Work keeps me busy during the weekdays, but there as well I don’t feel the urge to give my best, and instead look for alternate careers that can get me into a “flow” state (not found yet). Do you have any recommendations on how to live a better life? I am 36.

Do you think working remotely kills creativity? I spoke to a CEO who called everyone to return to in person work becuase working remotely lacked the out-of-the-box results he was looking for.

Do you think it should ever be an expectation to respond to emails/chats while out of office when you’ve communicated that ahead of time? My new leader has no boundaries and thinks everyone should be checking in at various points during my time off. I do this sometimes on my own accord, if time, but feel setting it as an expectation is unnecessary.

I feel like im being targeted at work. I just got “in trouble” for doing what my sr team member instructed me to do after the SOP was in clear. I just got put on a PIP and was left out of the anniversary slide.. there is a ton more of stupid crap that has happened to make me think this way, but I only have so many characters on this post. I’m applying for jobs already, but should I even try to go to HR? I’ve been on this new team about a year now and it’s one thing after another.