Hoodie

I wore a hoodie, jeans and runners to work yesterday. I usually wear a button-up shirt and dress shoes, often with a blazer, sometimes with a suit. Basically, my work "look" is a bit more formal than the average. It was kind of funny how changing this to be a bit less formal really threw a couple of people.

When I was sick I had a lot of time on my hands while I had to just lay there and wait to get better. In situations like that, new perspectives can become available. It's a little thing, but I figured maybe I wanted to be a little more relaxed at work. Or ...maybe that there was a slight discrepency in how I "present" and how I like to behave. I'm not sure. Maybe I just wanted to feel more physically comfortable.

Anyway, I guess I've been thinking about how I want to relate to work, and who I want to be at work. I've made an effort to create a mental separation between work and non-work life, but that's to stop work infiltrating my non-work time, rather than wanting to stop people at work knowing about who I am and what I do outside of work. At least, that's what I've always thought I was doing. Maybe I wasn't. Maybe I have been maintaining a "work persona" and I ...can't be bothered doing that anymore? Hard to say. But the new hoody is very comfortable.