Workday Blues
'How long before you screw it up? How many times do I have to tell you to hurry up? With everything I do for you, the least you can do is keep quiet. Be a good girl, you gotta try a little harder. That simply wasn't good enough to make us proud.' - Alanis Morrisette, Perfect.
Yes, I promised I wouldn't whine. I wouldn't whine. I wouldn't whine.
Three posts in and, uh, I'm whining.
Sorry. Suck it up. Or stop reading. You have a choice. Me, I have to live it and I have to write it.
No-one told me it would be this hard.
Wake up at sixthirty, dress the kids, leave at seventhirty, drop the kids in the pre-school care, rush to work, get there at eight.
Work all morning, with half an hour for lunch, at my desk, for reasons unknown.
Work all afternoon. Have a two o'clock dip that lasts til four.
Leave at four. Drive impulsively fast to fetch the kids from wherever they are (two different possibilities), go crazy fast to the gym, work out like a maniac in the hour I have.
Rush home.
Cook dinner, clean up.
Watch tv, write, be online. Do the PTA, plan the food.
Try and fit my life into the four hours before I go to bed at ten, if I make it there by then.
Now this is where that little voice tells me:
'Suck it up. Or stop working. You have a choice.'
And the other little voice says
'Wait, you don't.'
Hah.
Isn't there a little voice saying "part-time is a nice combination"?
And since you go for the own url/weblog; why movable type and not wordpress?? Are there advantages I'm not aware of?
Marjolein, that little voice is definitely there, but my current job can't go part-time!
I got movable type because it's hosted at a friend and he has MT. I think wordpress is more intuitive, but that's just me :)
Darn, from not to fulltime is quite a step indeed. Do you have schoolholidays though, or just the normal amount?
If the job is fun you'll adept (as will the kids) I quess.
working is overrated. Didn't I tell you? Keep you mind on the money and if you have time left to read, I suggest "your money or your life" from Joe Dominguez (http://www.yourmoneyoryourlife.org) on how to take back your life. I did it, you can too!