How Do I Tell People To Back Off?

[BFritz21]

(07-05-2021, 11:42 AM)samhain Wrote: All this may be true, but you still need to compartmentalize. There is a public life and there is a private life.  When work intersects with public, some people will get the idea that you are always at their disposal no matter what your mental state is.  People today have a really hard time accepting that there are people in the world other than themselves, and that those people are not in their service 24-7.  If you can't find ways to create boundaries, then you probably need to avoid going out if you find yourself in a less social mindset.

It's not a work mindset.  This has nothing to do with work.  It's just how I'm (we're) viewed in the community.

I can't really turn it off and just say "sorry, that's not how I am today," and that's especially true considering Northern Kentucky is one big bubble.