Work Fatigue - OT (kind of)
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| Wed, 04-05-2006 - 10:09am |
Morning all,
Is it just me or do you have entire weeks where you want to crawl back into bed and pull the covers over your head? I absolutely love my job - I'am an environmental consultant so I get to spend half my time hiking and half my time in the office wearing a cute suit and working with clients. I'am thrilled with what I get paid and the benefits are great, but it seems like I have my really "on" days and really "off" days where I just can't get it together. I know that I take everything at work a little too seriously and stress way too much so I feel like I may be burning myself out.
It's somewhat debt related because I have those daydreams about running off and living on an island somewhere, being a total bum, but then I remember that Citibank will find me eventually and it stresses me out even more. This is one of those mornings:) Can anyone else relate?

I am so jealous! Your job sounds like my dream job! Well, after the kids are grown, that is.
And yes, I can totally relate. No matter how great the job, there are entire weeks when a person just wants to crawl under a rock (or onto a beach) and stay there asleep.
I love my job--I get to be with my kids all day, go on field trips, take walks in the woods, fish for tadpoles, visit nature museums, garden, and I even get to do some freelance writing and occasionally step out of my "mom" role and into a world of professionalism for a few hours a week.
But I still have those weeks. This happens to be one of them. LOL Mostly because of the morning sickness, but sometimes the idea of feeding the cat, and the fish, and the kids, and tidying the kitchen and insisting on clean-up in the playroom just all seems too much. And to even think of catching up with those clients I should have called last week about pending freelance jobs--ack!!
And then there's dinner to plan and groceries to purchase and babysitting to do and seedlings to bring indoors at night and plants to water a car to clean and a baby to plan for... I just can't face it all right now!!
And, yes, our debt prevents us taking drastic steps that we both dream of from time to time. Some day!!
I also remember in graduate school days when I would be approaching the exit for school and I would imagine myself just keeping on driving, just driving and driving and never turning back around. Of course it was unrealistic, but sometimes the urge was so powerful it was force of habit only that gave me the strength to turn off the Interstate. Other times I wanted to hop a cargo train and just go wherever it would take me.
Anyway, my point is I can definitely relate--it's not just you. Can you take some time to rejuvenate? Maybe treat yourself to a manicure or a hot bath with scented candles? Take a day off from work just to do something crazy? Or just put your head down and keep pushing on through... it will get better.
In the meantime, I'm sending you strength vibes. Hope you feel better soon.
Blessings,
Heather
ooohh...
I know how you feel. I'm having one of those years. I love my job, but a lot of me says, oh, just stay home. And if I stay home, i get to do laundry, wash dishes, clean, etc. Sometimes I just want to run away.
And I tell myself little tricks like - in three months I'll have a break. Or once we get out of debt I'll take a year off and do something I want to do.
This is totally debt related because if we weren't in debt, I wouldn't have to work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. But I really want to get out of debt before I turn 30, and DH can't work quite yet, so it's off to work I go.
Your job sounds great! Maybe you just need a recharge - it's hard because even if you like what you do, your time is not your own. So maybe you can take an extra day off somewhere, and have a minibreak. Easter is coming soon, and that's a long weekend as well.
Yeppers, I can definitely relate. :-D I don't work outside the home, but between Homeschooling, housework, yard work, car and house maintenance, and driving my son to karate training 5-6 days a week, there are definitely times when I want to just crawl into bed and hide. LOL! Thankfully, those days are rare, but I think everyone has times like that. My DH travels for work, so all of the household maintenance work is on my shoulders, and with our parents getting older and living several states away, I'm usually the person who gets called with all the "We need help!" calls, and it's just so much pressure at times.
I try to find little breaks in my day, even if it's just 5-10 minutes to stand out on my back deck and watch the trees sway in the breeze and think about what I'm thankful for. Just to get myself refocused. :-D
Pat :-D
Oh yeah!!!
Becky
CL of 4th, 5th & 6th grade Scoliosis
Hello,
One reason I'm working through Dave Ramsey's plan for getting rid of debt and building wealth is that I'd *like* to be independently wealthy at some point. You'd think making 83k a year that it wouldn't be possible... actually, it is.
Imagine this:
If you are debt-free except for your mortgage, have some emergency savings, and are putting money away toward retirement, you would be considered one of the top 5% in wealthy people in America. =)
Sincerely,
Lindsey Schocke
Geeks on Tap: Mission Accomplished
I know what you mean about work fatigue. I only work part time now and go to school full time, but there are times when I want to stay in bed all day (a lot of those actually!) When I worked full time, I loved my job and my colleagues, but sometimes, I just didn't want to be there. Usually this coincided with other stressors in my life. I was lucky though becuase I could take my holidays in days on short notice, so if I felt like I was being overwhelmed, I would take a day off and have a me day!
Becky
Bex -
Glad to hear I'am not the only one:) Every once in a while the DH and I think back to the good old days (just 5 years ago!) when we were debt free and I was out of grad school and we lived in Yosemite National Park for a summer just hiking, partying and having a good time. (whimper) I was cocktail waitressing and he was bussing tables at one of the Yosemite tourist restaurants and we were rich!
We've come the realization that we're going to need to win the lottery - it's our only hope:)