I am seriously a workalcholic and it's hard for me to QUIT being a workalcholic.
I have been working since 2 pm today from home.
Yesterday, I worked about 2 hours.
On Thanksgiving, I actually had to sneak out from my best friend's Thanksgiving dinner to text a reply back to my boss. He texted me twice on Thanksgiving!
When I arrived Wed to stay with my best friend and her family for Thanksgiving, she took one look at my laptop bag and said, "You've got to be kidding me! You brought WORK with you!?" I defended myself saying, "You never know- anything might come up so I brought it to be safe." And she just looked at me and said if she caught me on the laptop, she'd take it away and hide it where I can't find it so I shut up. She also made sure that we shared a room so that meant I couldn't retreat to the privacy of a bedroom and work on a laptop. She knows me too well.
I am supposed to be off Dec. 20th to 24th but I recently told my boss that since we are filming some projects on Dec. 20-22 (which HE had scheduled without telling me) that I will move my vacation to the week AFTER Christmas since he's filming some other projects with another colleague of mine during that week and they won't need me. JEEZ..
Honestly, I don't know what to do. I really don't want to be a workalcholic BUT I just can't relax knowing things are not done. I actually wake up in middle of nights sometimes thinking of things I need to do for the next day! I don't want to sound self-important but if I don't work overtime, things won't get done, people will get upset with me since it impacts their work performance/schedule/earnings.
The last 2 months has been real hectic and the next 3-4 months looks to be MORE hectic than I can imagine.
Last week, I promised myself that I'd go one night without doing any work and the next morning, I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off and we started filming late and our CEO had to wait 10 minutes before we were ready to film him so my boss was real upset about that. I just gritted my teeth and got it done.
In the past, when I was out sick or just out, my boss will text or email me asking me to do things. The only time where I am guaranteed a break from my boss is when he's busy with filming other projects with another colleague of mine. I know I allow that to happen and I should stand up and stop it...
Am I the only workalcholic out there??
I have been working since 2 pm today from home.
Yesterday, I worked about 2 hours.
On Thanksgiving, I actually had to sneak out from my best friend's Thanksgiving dinner to text a reply back to my boss. He texted me twice on Thanksgiving!
When I arrived Wed to stay with my best friend and her family for Thanksgiving, she took one look at my laptop bag and said, "You've got to be kidding me! You brought WORK with you!?" I defended myself saying, "You never know- anything might come up so I brought it to be safe." And she just looked at me and said if she caught me on the laptop, she'd take it away and hide it where I can't find it so I shut up. She also made sure that we shared a room so that meant I couldn't retreat to the privacy of a bedroom and work on a laptop. She knows me too well.
I am supposed to be off Dec. 20th to 24th but I recently told my boss that since we are filming some projects on Dec. 20-22 (which HE had scheduled without telling me) that I will move my vacation to the week AFTER Christmas since he's filming some other projects with another colleague of mine during that week and they won't need me. JEEZ..
Honestly, I don't know what to do. I really don't want to be a workalcholic BUT I just can't relax knowing things are not done. I actually wake up in middle of nights sometimes thinking of things I need to do for the next day! I don't want to sound self-important but if I don't work overtime, things won't get done, people will get upset with me since it impacts their work performance/schedule/earnings.
The last 2 months has been real hectic and the next 3-4 months looks to be MORE hectic than I can imagine.
Last week, I promised myself that I'd go one night without doing any work and the next morning, I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off and we started filming late and our CEO had to wait 10 minutes before we were ready to film him so my boss was real upset about that. I just gritted my teeth and got it done.
In the past, when I was out sick or just out, my boss will text or email me asking me to do things. The only time where I am guaranteed a break from my boss is when he's busy with filming other projects with another colleague of mine. I know I allow that to happen and I should stand up and stop it...
Am I the only workalcholic out there??
