Some, if not most of us have been there, an untenable situation where you have resigned to go with the flow, as long as the paycheck comes in, on time. You are told to jump, you just jump, you count down the clock, you maximize and minimize your emails, you see emails coming in after clock out and it becomes tomorrow’s problem. Your soul is withering slowly every second of every minute of every hour of every day you are there.

How do you survive it? My colleague likes to to say:- focus.

This is my coping strategy:- What is my WHY? Why i’m i here? Why do i need to put up with this? And its simple, Money.

The money i make gives me the ability to experience Joy. When the muhindi shouts, and the ka-ching gets credited at the end of the month, i can buy myself a bottle of wine, take myself to a spa, go out for a long drive to wherever, check myself in to a hotel in Nanyuki. Pesa ni sabuni ya roho.

Over and above that, I have the ability to build something, so that i don’t have to put up with this forever. That is how i survive this.

I read somewhere that burnout in corporate is rampant when you are given responsibilities without the decision making power. Fancy words for a set up.

And thats why i’ll push on, because i now know the pitfalls, and i know my why.