“I Don’t Like To Talk About Work”

Alden Tan
1 min readApr 23, 2024

I used to think that the reason why people say, “I don’t like to talk about work” is because they’re simply tired.

They want to unwind and decompress outside of the office.

But I’ve come to realize that there could be more reasons than that.

I personally don’t like to talk about work or what I do because I tend to be ultra sensitive to criticism (under the disguise of feedback) and even well-meaning advice.

They all steer me off course when I think I “need” to at least give whatever it is they…

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