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.
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Date: 2009-05-30 03:11 pm (UTC)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.