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Night shift has a way of creating two different versions of the same person.

At work, you might be organized, patient, productive, social, dependable, and fully switched on. Then you get home and suddenly the smallest task feels overwhelming, your social battery is dead, and your family ends up seeing the version of you that finally feels safe enough to crash.

In Episode 5 of Built in the Dark, I talk about the difference between “work Mike” and “home Mike,” why work can get the energized version of us, and why home sometimes gets whatever is left.

We also get into the importance of having a real transition between work and home, learning not to bring management energy into your family, and protecting the parts of your life that your paycheck is supposed to support in the first place.

This episode also features community responses from Cobalt Amphibian and Alina, who perfectly describe the difference between how they show up at work and who they become once they get home.

If you’ve ever thought, “Everybody at work gets the best version of me, and my family gets the leftovers,” this episode is for you.

There’s something deeply backwards about working yourself into the ground to build a life, then having no energy left to actually live it.

Until next shift…

keep building in the dark.