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Surviving The Holidays Sober, And No Longer A Workaholic, Kind Of
Does anyone else use work as an excuse to avoid gatherings?
I used to love having the excuse that I had to work during the holidays. I have family, yet I have never felt like I fit in with them during the holidays. Of course, they would tell you a different story.
Yet this is my story now.
One of the benefits of working at a hospital is that a hospital does not close no matter what. There will always be sick people, and I worked in the ICU, and I also would float all over the hospital, so it was pretty much guaranteed that if I wanted to work a holiday, I would.
This was not the story I told my family or friends.
See, when you know that you have a problem socializing and being around alcohol, work is the safest place for me. I used to bury a lot of my life with work, “sorry, I can’t; I have to work.”
To be fair, I did have one job for a long time that I had difficulty switching the days. Yet we also got to pick the days about 6 months before the holidays approached. I…
