What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?
Act busy to avoid getting more work assigned. If you’re already busy, act busier. Rinse and repeat. This also works if you want to avoid chatting with coworkers. If they want to ask you questions about work stuff, tell them to throw a meeting on your calendar. 90% of people from my experience will never willingly schedule a meeting but be prepared for the 10% that will. None of this is a guarantee of smooth sailing but it helps make the daily less rocky.
Good luck!
unfrazzled analyst 
One of my favourite needlepoint pillows had the phrase “look busy, Jesus is coming” stitched on it – proof that this technique irks!
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Haha!!! I’m usually successful in looking busy all the time (because I usually am) but even when I’m not.
My high school economics instructor was one of the few people that saw past it and called me out it class. “This one over here makes pretending to work and look busy an art form.” Clearly my technique irked him!
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Irks and works 😆
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