Growing a ‘terrible’ beard, moving back in with your parents, and getting engaged: The joys and sleeplessness of lockdown
While media attention is often focused on C-suite level executives, it’s those working for them who rely upon their empathy, decision-making, and leadership, especially as COVID-19 continues to gobble up jobs and strip back salaries. Mumbrella’s Brittney Rigby asks four of the industry’s brightest how they’re doing, why they never feel “1,000% safe”, and why now isn’t the time to think “Look at so and so, they’ve baked 20 sourdough breads”.
Charlotte Goodsir doesn’t know what she’s doing to fill the big and empty slabs of time we’ve come to know as ‘iso’. When I ask the question of The Monkeys’ 25-year-old social strategist, she mentions the 1993 film Groundhog Day when she replies: “I just kind of watch Netflix and eat dinner and then it’s time to go to bed.”
I wanted to speak with junior to mid-level professionals across the industry, to pick their brains on how they’re feeling and what they’re doing. After all, while everyone in the industry has been catapulted into the woolliness that is COVID-19, it’s those on the first few rungs of the ladder who are most relying on their leaders to protect and support them, and who are subject to the pay cuts, stand downs, redundancies, and work loads associated with a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
How is their mental health? What does their work-from-home set up look like? How are they differentiating between weekdays and weekends? And have they experienced moments of fulfilment and relaxation within a stretch of stressful mundanity?
