I don't get it

[mousme]

Y'know, other people manage to be productive in spite of major obstacles in their lives. They deal with chronic illnesses, marriage, children, crappy jobs, whatever.

Logically, by extension, you'd think I would be able to cope with the *one* thing in my life that doesn't always go according to plan. So I work long hours. So what? Lots of people do. I don't get why that prevents me from getting other stuff done in my life.

It's been three or four days now in which I simply haven't been able to drag myself out of bed before 09:00, which is ridiculous. I can't get anything useful done, either. I have a TON of stuff I need to do around the house, not to mention that I haven't been grocery shopping in for-freaking-ever, and I have almost no cat food and almost no cat litter and I'm tired of living only off of pasta which I don't even have the time/energy/inclination to cook. Not to mention the clutter that I *still* haven't found a proper home for.

Part of it is a time problem, and part of it is an energy problem. It just seems to take forever to do even small, mundane things: making food, washing dishes, getting ready for work. When it takes twice as long to do anything as usual, it leaves very little for anything else.

Anyway, don't mind me. Frustrated cat is frustrated.

Comments

[forthright.livejournal.com]

When you're working 60+ hours a week, the sort of thing you describe is inevitable, and it's even worse when you're working irregular hours. It's exhaustion, and it permeates every aspect of your life and makes any rational calculation of the nature of 'there are 108 other hours left in this week' meaningless. Marriage and children can be time-consuming, sure, but they can be 'done' in conjunction with other things, and they have a lot of rewards (and in the case of marriage, you have someone to share the workload!) And a crappy 40-hour a week job is still only 40 hours a week. But you work 60+, there's no way around it, the rest of your nonwork hours will be unproductive. Stimulants help (oh sweet mother caffeine, how I worship thee) but that's not a real solution.

Sometimes I'm amazed you function as well as you do while doing as much as you do outside of your work schedule - I certainly couldn't do it. You deserve a hell of a lot of credit for pushing through it.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

You don't work long hours, you work INSANELY long hours.

I believe most people who work long hours cope by not doing anything else in their life, and not really caring about that fact.

[sirena73]

THIS.

Exhaustion. You're soaking in it. And you're allowed to whine about it, because A) it's your party, and B) exhaustion sucks away SO MUCH. Even when I had TWO jobs, I didn't work the amount of hours you pull down, and I lost my mind because of it.

I'm amazed at the level you function at. I'd be sleeping all the time I wasn't at work.

[heartofawarrior.livejournal.com]

1) Your current music WINS!

2) Nobody can be super-person forever - eventually all the expended energy is going to catch up with you, and leave you sluggish for awhile. *shares tea* You work an insane amount of hours at a job that can be very stressful, and that requires a huge amount of energy. I admire your ability to be functional outside the office - like the commenter above, I think I'd be adopting a cat-style napping pattern if I was in a situation like that. lol