I need to know I am not the only workalcoholic out there having life issues!
I really do love my job but I SWEAR I HATE the months of Jan-March. These are the most BUSIEST months for me.
The last 2 weeks, I have had to bring work home ALMOST EVERY NIGHT and work from 6 OR 7 TO MIDNIGHT trying to catch up on work but not with much success..
Today I didn't have time for breakfast so I skipped it, I had to ask a student worker to get me a hamburger at 12:30 THEN I couldn't get to take a BITE of the hamburger until 2 pm due to all the interruptions by students, student workers needing my help, co workers needing help AND employers wanting to know more about our upcoming fair, etc! I couldn't even FINISH the hamburger by 6 pm. That's how busy I was today.. I left work at 6, got home, fed the cats, gave Tango his eye medicine then started working at 7:30 (after getting a few friends upset cuz I forgot to show up for a meeting at 7) and it's now 10 and I'm not even half done..
PLEASE tell me that some of you guys have days like this too.. If you do, how do you handle this??
I feel sooo guilty for my cats cuz I haven't had much time to play with them. I try to play with them half an hour before I fall asleep these last couple weeks but it's not the same.. I took a break from working Sat, Sun and Mon and gave cats more attention so that helped a bit.
It's also hard for me because I have to fight with Tango to give him medicine at least 10 times a day for his eye and his eye is NOT improving.. There's a thread about that in health section so I won't go into THAT here.
NOW, my sis is telling me that my nephew who is ONLY 21 will be getting married on March 14th to a 19 year old girl he met in September and she wants to know if I can fly out to Utah for the wedding.. I really have MIXED FEELINGS about this because I have spent so much money on getting Tango's eye treated that I"m almost maxed out on my credit card, I am so overwhelmed with work and will continue to be very busy until end of April so it'd be extremely difficult for me to get away for a couple days and at this time I DO NOT want to spend any time away from Tango with his eye issues. BUT I don't want to miss another wedding, create more bad feelings in my family and have them mutter about how I put cats, work or friends first before family... I DO CHERISH family.... how do I explain this?? I feel responsible for my cats- they're my babies. They got really upset with me about Tango several times and have repeatedly told me to put him to sleep just to save money.
I also live very far from family (they are all in Utah while I live in Maryland) so I don't keep in touch with them on a frequent basis (they don't either)..
I guess I just better shut up! I am rambling on now..
I guess I just need to know that I'm not the only one out there overwhelmed at work, struggling with life issues and if so, how do YOU handle it????
I really do love my job but I SWEAR I HATE the months of Jan-March. These are the most BUSIEST months for me.
The last 2 weeks, I have had to bring work home ALMOST EVERY NIGHT and work from 6 OR 7 TO MIDNIGHT trying to catch up on work but not with much success..
Today I didn't have time for breakfast so I skipped it, I had to ask a student worker to get me a hamburger at 12:30 THEN I couldn't get to take a BITE of the hamburger until 2 pm due to all the interruptions by students, student workers needing my help, co workers needing help AND employers wanting to know more about our upcoming fair, etc! I couldn't even FINISH the hamburger by 6 pm. That's how busy I was today.. I left work at 6, got home, fed the cats, gave Tango his eye medicine then started working at 7:30 (after getting a few friends upset cuz I forgot to show up for a meeting at 7) and it's now 10 and I'm not even half done..
PLEASE tell me that some of you guys have days like this too.. If you do, how do you handle this??
I feel sooo guilty for my cats cuz I haven't had much time to play with them. I try to play with them half an hour before I fall asleep these last couple weeks but it's not the same.. I took a break from working Sat, Sun and Mon and gave cats more attention so that helped a bit.
It's also hard for me because I have to fight with Tango to give him medicine at least 10 times a day for his eye and his eye is NOT improving.. There's a thread about that in health section so I won't go into THAT here.
NOW, my sis is telling me that my nephew who is ONLY 21 will be getting married on March 14th to a 19 year old girl he met in September and she wants to know if I can fly out to Utah for the wedding.. I really have MIXED FEELINGS about this because I have spent so much money on getting Tango's eye treated that I"m almost maxed out on my credit card, I am so overwhelmed with work and will continue to be very busy until end of April so it'd be extremely difficult for me to get away for a couple days and at this time I DO NOT want to spend any time away from Tango with his eye issues. BUT I don't want to miss another wedding, create more bad feelings in my family and have them mutter about how I put cats, work or friends first before family... I DO CHERISH family.... how do I explain this?? I feel responsible for my cats- they're my babies. They got really upset with me about Tango several times and have repeatedly told me to put him to sleep just to save money.
I guess I just better shut up! I am rambling on now..