Work Planning

Last week was rough, I hardly slept and I believe I'm still behind on all that lost sleep. On top of that, any sleep that I did get lead to bad dreams and is still continuing to do so. Every Monday for the last several weeks I've been working on probably an hours worth of sleep. It's been getting more and more frustrating for my weekend habits are solely the cause of that. The good news is, there are only 2 more Mondays for me to work til summer starts.

Just about all my dreams, everyday, are about work. The setting is hardly ever in my actual work setting, but the teacher and the children are always present. Sometimes it could be just the teacher and some supposed unrecognized children or child, or an actual student or few. They may not all be bad, but I would like some variety nonetheless. Some are really pleasant, some are mundane, some are really odd, and some are bad. Like any other dream, really.

Ever since I started this job, the end of the week marks a great break down of my normal abilities. I become silly, unable to speak correctly, extremely tired, and clumsy. It's definitely been amusing, especially for my boyfriend to witness. I think he's used to it now, but I have to be careful sometimes.

I realized since a few weeks ago, basically around the time my most helpful coworker left the job to go back to school, that I've been becoming burnt out from work. It's quite an eye opener. The first 3 months of this job didn't really take that much of a toll on me, but with her absence, it definitely has become the case. And with that realization, I worry that taking on a second job at the same time may be quite difficult...depending on the job of course.

I had an interview at a trendy used clothing store, which ended up being a group interview. I still haven't heard back from them, making my hopes decrease more and more as time goes by. The only 2 concrete things that I have to make money for the summer will be care-giving for a young boy with cerebral palsy and doing dreadlocks. However, both of those things are somewhat unreliable thus far. I have one customer who requires dreadlock maintenance on an ongoing basis. She definitely will be using my services whenever she can, but that's not often enough. She just inquired today about me doing services this week, making this the second time for me to do work for her. I'm very happy about that. As for the care-giving, I'm only in the beginning stages of meeting the mom, current babysitter, and the boy himself. This week I'm kind of going through a training to learn the ropes and get comfortable. I have no idea really what kind of schedule I will have with that since the mother does not know what kind of summer hours will be needed and I don't know if I'll be getting other work as well. I'm still waiting to hear back if I'll be able to work summer school through my current job. I very much want to do that, but it will not be substantial. Only 4 weeks worth of work, 4 days a week, 4 hours each day. This doesn't happen til July.

This is all most definitely a cause for stress causing me to lose some sleep.

I am, however just a little relieved to know that summer is only so long...or short.