I quit my job today. Woke up at seven in the morning, dead tired, and decided that I didn’t feel like being that tired for yet another week. So I quit.
I’m apparently not the type of person who can work multiple jobs (I’ve been somewhere near 70-80 hours per week for the last six weeks). I’m more of a 40 hour per week guy – a firm believer that less work equals more productivity. This non-stop motion leaves me constantly tired and irritable.
It’s not the work, as much as its the lack of down-time. There has to be a balance between work and pleasure, when work is not pleasurable. I can’t cut sleep out of the process, so the overload of work means that I rarely get a chance to indulge in hobbies (like watching films for fun, or doing work on my Edgerly research or gaming essay), and don’t have time to keep my environment clean. (I’m a neat freak, but if one were to look at my desk right now they’d have no idea. It’s a mass of fragments of paper with notes that range from ideas for writing to “don’t forget to see if the college forgot to pay you money.”) There’s no time for real life. It took me three weeks to call the college and ask why there appeared to be $500 less in my loan than there should be.
So now I have some time back. No more seven a.m. mornings, no more 16 hour days (hopefully), and no more living life without any of the fun things that make life worth bothering to live.
I feel better already. Hooray for poverty.
Good decision.
i hate losing so much of usable time by being at work too. ‘cuz i keep trying to call University Accounting Services ‘cuz they apparently do NOT understand what i’ve done to my name, and the automated lady tells me that their offices are open from 7-5 ct. i call at 4:50 (i get off of work at 4:30, so that’s the earliest i get home) and the stupid lady insists that their offices are closed. hi, it’s NOT 5 yet!! and i’ll be damned if i have to try to call them while i’m getting ready for work that early. fuck. >:P so that’s been on my to-do list for a couple weeks now. i half don’t care ‘cuz i’m just waitin for ud to send an lvc to nelnet so they can finish up my consolidation. shop talk. but i’ve typed a novel now. sorry.
Feel free to type novels. Blogs are all about the ramble…
Isn’t it nice how financial institutions are only available to answer the phone during times when most people are at work earning the money that they need to ask questions about?
If I were more paranoid, I’d find that to be a compelling bit of evidence.