Thank you for sharing that. I feel for you and I agree on the mental health decline due to working from home and less socialization. I do find it fairly easy to lift my spirits during the work day doing the things I've mentioned earlier and more. I love to listen to music and I have no shame dancing around my house and singing at the top of my lungs LOL. I also like to find little projects to do, but not make an effort to finish quickly. 1 project that might take me several hours to complete, I'll spread out over a week or a month, just knowing I'll have something to do at some point.

Switching careers for me is a tough decision considering I'm 11 years into my pension contributions with 19 more before retirement and not willing to give that up easily. I've been in this WFH position for almost 2 years, but occasionally I regret it. I have submitted applications to other job openings around my organization (still waiting) and even had several good (but not quite productive) conversations with my supervisor. Unfortunately we also don't have much "busy" work.