How Can You Thrive as a Designer?

I've been in the industry for seven eight years and I started working in the technical community some of you know. When I returned from vacation I had one or two weeks to prepare from going back to my job after two years. The feeling is is a bit surreal because this was a world that was a very big part of your life and then it sort of disappeared completely. It's really strange to align everything in the beginning like to make everything work together even on a psychological level right but it's exciting at the same time so it was a great feeling to start talking to people I haven't spoken to maybe in a long time.