Taking Work Home

In order to de-stress a common suggestion is to leave work at work. When your job is in the weather business though, it is literally impossible. Not only do you experience it, everyone wants to talk about it. When’s it going to get cold? When’s it going to snow? How do you explain climate change? It’s more than just your average how’s the weather icebreaker. People really want answers.

Many of my colleagues find this annoying and steer away from any and all such interactions, but I am of a different mindset. I love my job; I love to talk about my job; and if I have an opportunity to justify my line of thinking regarding a forecast, you’d better believe I’m going to take it. It’s this attitude that permits me to de-stress. So for all of those self-help gurus out there, some people need to bring work home. I would rather talk about and track a line of thunderstorms then become a nervous wreck if they arrive and I didn’t forecast them or vice versa.

One of the best forms of relaxation is being able to communicate. The ability to voice opinions through different mediums is an important part of every day life. Another idea from the experts is to write things down at the end of the day to help fall asleep. My way of getting rid of those annoying weather-related thoughts is to tweet them. Reporting what is going on rather than dwelling on what I thought would happen is great therapy. It is my go to mantra after waking up in the middle of the night to a crash of thunder I didn’t forecast.

I know I am the exception and not the norm when in comes to bringing work home but, if I embrace it and find ways to accommodate it, it becomes part of the relaxation process. Some days are easier to accept this philosophy; I just have to figure out how to be right all the time!


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