Been quiet quitting for eight months - is this normal or a sign I need to leave?
Not looking for validation, actually just want to know if anyone else has been here.
Nothing dramatic happened at work. No blowup, no terrible manager moment, i just gradually stopped doing more than the minimum somewhere around last autumn and never started again. I show up, i do my tasks, i reply to things, i leave at five. That's it. I don't think about work in the evenings. I don't check slack after hours. I haven't volunteered for a single extra thing in months.
Performance review came back fine. Slightly above average actually. Which is either reassuring or concerning depending on how you look at it.
The thing i keep getting stuck on is i used to care. Not in a toxic hustle way, just like. i was interested. i had opinions about stuff at work. now i sit in meetings and i'm just waiting for them to end and i genuinely cannot remember when that changed or if i can change it back or if i even want to.
Weekends feel like weekends now which is new. I sleep fine. By most measures i'm less stressed than i've been in years. But there's this background thing where i feel like i'm just. waiting. For what i don't know.
Is this what a normal sustainable job actually feels like and i just never had one before? Or is this what it looks like before you realise you need to leave? becuase i honestly cannot tell anymore.