Why did mum tell me in an e-mail that work is not a life/death situation?

[Deja Q]

She knows I'm having issues at work right now (office politics and I'm on the receiving end.)

Is she trying to be punny, which isn't very funny? Or does she think that I'm thinking of doing something very nasty to myself (which I'm not)?

[Derailer]

1. There is more than one level of doing something

very nasty to yourself

Other than that there's really only one reply to your post: ask her

[crispini]

2. Maybe she thinks you're getting too upset about work.

Work, after all, is not the be-all and end-all of existence:

"We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them." -- Thoreau.

[tjdee]

3. She's telling you to lighten up. It's only a job.

And while it hurts me to say that, I guess it's true. If you're going to lose your job/leave your job, there's only so much worrying/bellyaching you can do without driving yourself nuts. The truest cliche I ever heard is Que sera, sera. You have your health, you have your family, you're ahead.

I know how important a job is to your wellbeing, believe me. But at the end of your life are you going to be thinking about your job?

Or, it could be that she thinks you're being a drama king and is blowing you off. Oh wait, that's not MY mother. :silly: