10 signs that you’ve grown from Party Animal to Office Animal.
- QueenJoke
- Feb 25, 2015
- 2 min read
As much as you want it to be different. It's time to face facts here: the glorious college life has ended and it's time to get to the business of becoming a full-functioning adult.
In the beginning we still try to stay 'young and carefree'. Drinking evenings on a weekday, spontaneous termination of your first job because "you'll find something new in no time', flirting with all the cute guys in the office and succeeding, and so on and so on.
This is how you know that those wild days are definitely over:
Even though the coffee tastes like sewage water, it’s still your main source of life every morning and you take pride in being able to drink more than 2 mugs of the concoction.
On those rare occasions that you're not too tired to go out it's not unusual to pull your badge from your coat pocket when you're trying to fish for change at the bar.
Early office hours are relished to catch up on personal emails in between that morning sandwich and your office inbox blinking away.
When someone wants to get something from your desk drawer it brings up instant panic: your entire life is in there.
Saturday mornings are for waking up to a gianormous panic attack for not hearing your alarm. Realising it's saturday only when you're one foot out the door.
The excitement over any kind of office material upgrade is equal to a kid's excitement on christmasmorning.
Communicating with your friends happens via your office email account. No texting, phonecalls or whatsapp. Those are for lunchbreaks or the end of the day and relished like a chocolat treat by a fat kid on a diet.
Diets are simply impossible: birthdays, cookie sales of your coworker's kids, business lunches, ... It seems the universe is determined to get you nice and fatted up.
Going out on friday evening equals either getting sloppy drunk because your tired body can't take the wine or making up excuses at 7.30 just so you can go home and get comfy in your pjs.
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