Keeping busy is good for mental health and all. Especially when you live by yourself. But this is out of control. I am seriously sleep deprived. I typically get out of bed at 7:30 AM, no matter when I went to sleep (about 10PM last night). So I rush through the shower, etc. and arrive at work still half-asleep.
I actually started working hours during the week because I didn't want to work on Sunday mornings. They gave me the hours during the week. But they never cut the Sunday hours.
Don't get me wrong. I like the iPod that all this work has got me. And my MIDI keyboard. But I only really listen to my iPod while walking to and from my car at West. I don't have time to listen to it anywhere else. I pretty much just sleep and work.
But last night really topped it off. Went to sleep at 10PM. At around 3 or 4 in the morning, I was having some crazy dream about some bag lady attacking my car with a machete. Don't ask — I don't know. Anyway, she eventually tried to attack me through the window. I lunged at her. Unfortunately, I lunged to the left. The left side of my bed is up against a wall. See where this is going?
Luckily there's no bruise, but I cracked my head right above my eye.
The lack of sleep is making me batshit psycho. Now even the sleep I do get is interrupted by minor head wounds.
I have to work at Sears today. They're gonna work me this Wed, Thur, Sat and Sun. I might do that, but I'm cutting out Sundays or weekdays after that.
I don't know how people do it. I can't imagine doing this with a family.|||109767729309726545|||Exhausted
Scooter|||It's possible, at least with just a wife - I don't do it anymore since I went full time at West, but I used to do my full time job as a contractor with the group I was with at West, three subprojects that took anywhere between 10-20 hours total a week depending on the load, managed 10 consultants, which included annual reviews, meeting with them and their potential hires every time they moved between companies, closing documentation when they moved between companies, 12 lunches/dinners a month to keep them in the loop, see how they were doing, report to my superiors, and engage in activism to get them good assignments/awards/etc. That doesn't include the two little projects I worked on on the side for a friend who hired me for odd work or the technical interviews I did for Ajilon (national - I was doing about 20 forty minute interviews a month for Florida, Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota, among others), the company events and the constant schmoozing to find my account reps new programmers.End result was of course severe burn out and the realization that I had better scale back before I had a kid - so I went permanent at West. But I did manage to pay for two years of grad school for my wife at private college and a Saturn and collect a down payment for my new house without selling the old one all without seeing a change in my style of living.
Personally I prefer the relaxation - but the Republicans would accuse me of having an attitude problem.
cczernia|||You just need a little beach living, money.You crazy high paced people need to take it easy. Personally, I've never found the extra money worth working more than 40 hours.
Dump Sears and take up cross-country skiing or hockey. Enjoy your ipod. Work some more on putting together some more povert video.