too much work, not enough life
Dec. 30th, 2007 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronI am sick yet-a-bloody-gain. I have some sort of lurgy. Not sure if it's a cold or flu or just Epstein-Barr reactivating for fun. The latter seems a possibility as my glands are up and I have a sore throat from hell.
My work has been sucking my life lately, taking up every single spoon that I possess and leaving me with none at all for myself. This time of year is always crazy, as there's a set of public exams in January which are far too early in the school year considering how important they are. But lately I've been working 6, 7, 8 or even 9 hours a day - 6 days a week. This is... crazy. It can't go on. I work part-time because I need to for my health, yet I'm struggling with more than full-time hours.
I haven't been around online because I'm coming home every day and collapsing, almost literally. I've been getting in and lying on the bed, too tired & brain-fried to do anything except play with the Wii in a prone position. I've been going to sleep at the sort of hours when most people in my timezone go to bed, and staggering out of bed anything from 10-15 hours later. I need to figure out how to divest myself of the job that's killing me before it actually does.
Need More Spoons Plz.
My work has been sucking my life lately, taking up every single spoon that I possess and leaving me with none at all for myself. This time of year is always crazy, as there's a set of public exams in January which are far too early in the school year considering how important they are. But lately I've been working 6, 7, 8 or even 9 hours a day - 6 days a week. This is... crazy. It can't go on. I work part-time because I need to for my health, yet I'm struggling with more than full-time hours.
I haven't been around online because I'm coming home every day and collapsing, almost literally. I've been getting in and lying on the bed, too tired & brain-fried to do anything except play with the Wii in a prone position. I've been going to sleep at the sort of hours when most people in my timezone go to bed, and staggering out of bed anything from 10-15 hours later. I need to figure out how to divest myself of the job that's killing me before it actually does.
Need More Spoons Plz.
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Date: 2007-12-30 06:19 pm (UTC)Can you put your jobs into some kind of spreadsheet and not agree to take on additional tuition once you hit a level, or have a 'warning' range where you can advise your students that you won't be available.
Is there any chance you could find other people who would be interested in science tuition work to take the overspill and as people you could recommend to your students when you are unavailable?
Can you insist that more of your work is done at your place, so the student does the travelling to at least cut down that spoon-depletion down?
Sounds sucky and I hope your workload drops a lot soonest.
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Date: 2007-12-31 12:00 am (UTC)I have no suggestions (not knowing enough about the UK etc), but wish you well indeed.
May things settle down soonest!