Ugh – Progress and Decompression report
It’s been a tough month. A good month, but tough. I have been getting lots of orders, and actually have one I need to fix because I really messed up on it. Working on that this week. The work has been constant and on going every day after work and on weekends. And then there were some social obligations in there, too, that I enjoyed, but they took away giant chunks of time that I could have used. On top of that, I just joined Curves, which has been good. I need to get exercise into my life and this has been perfect for me, but it’s an added new thing and that is kind of stressful. Then, at work, it’s been nothing but phone calls. Calls for this, that and other.
Every time I’m in the market for a new job, I try to get a job that keeps me away from phones. I’ve had phone heavy jobs. and next to retail jobs they are the worst when it comes to emotional expenditure of energy. And then every job I have they decide, “oh, but you have such a nice voice and a good phone manner,” or they just plain don’t have time to do whatever it is and so I get make the phone calls and I hate it. I HATE PHONES!!!! As far as I’m concerned, phones are evil. Like retail, phone work makes you expend emotional energy on strangers you don’t care about. Yes, you get paid for it. But by the time you’re done, you don’t have any energy left over for the people you do care about, or for yourself. This is why I like email. In an email I can be accurate and relay all the information and there is a written record of what transpired between me and the other person.
I know. This too shall pass. I’ll get through this season where it seems I’m tired all the time. But for now, I’m just really tired. I appreciate the work I am getting and everything, but I would like one week all to myself where I’m not traveling, spending time with people, or working on stuff. One whole week where I can, for once, have time to clean my own home and get to bed on time and have 8 hours of sleep and play with the cat and watch my one Netflix movie and catch up with my bookkeeping and, and, and…oh, and let’s not forget my own writing.
I know. It will come. There have been long dry spells where I wish I was this busy and there will be again.
Right now, though, I’m just tired. And I need to get back to work.
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on June 19th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
I’m with ya, Rachel!! I hate being on the phone – would rather write fifty million emails, but I think that’s the writer in us, preferring written communication over verbal.
I always tell my mom, for someone who doesn’t make much money, I’m pretty dang busy all the time. I could use a whole week off from responsibility too but I don’t see that happening for a while.