Ok, I just need to vent a bit.
I just started a job yesterday that's going to have me employed for the next month until I head down to be with my SO. I know how lucky we are in that I only have to work for another month before we can close the distance for good. But shit, this is really not what I expected it to be.
I'm a full time student, and now that classes are over I'm just working for a bit to get some extra income. I accepted a job from the place I'd worked at part-time throughout the year to work full-time in a position until they find someone permanent. Perfect, I thought, a temp job where no one will expect much of me and I can just get paid to wait out the next month. Wrong.
I was thrown into this really high-maintenance position without a clue of what I was getting myself into. In the meeting where I accepted the position, my new boss just basically said I'd be scheduling meetings and writing up thank you cards for our sponsors. Well, that was about 5% of what I'll actually be doing. I'm getting a company Blackberry so I can be reached at all hours of the day, and run off my feet during the day doing things I have no clue how to do with limited time frames in which to do them. And it's already an enormous pain in the ass, not just in the sense of being asked to do things well beyond my abilities and expectations, but it's making it really hard for LoveL and I to have any decent time together during the day.
Yes, we've been spoiled in that, since we met, we've always had good chunks of time throughout the day to talk, and most nights from the time we get home until the time we go to bed. I get home pretty late now since LoveL and I have a couple hours' difference so that's already cutting into our time, but this job is already so demanding that there are going to be days where we'll hardly have time to talk during the day too. I know I sound like a huge whiner since we are so lucky in already having the time we do, but it's a big change from what we've had since we met, and it's making me feel pretty upset right now, just having to deal with the stress of wanting to give him all of my time and not being able to, on top of the stress from this job already. I'm only on day 2 and I already miss him like crazy. When I really settle down and think about the fact that it's only a month, it's extra income, and we will still have little bursts of communication, it's not bad. But when I think of having to do this for the next month and having it be as temporarily shitty as it is, it feels bad.
How do you get through craptastic work days and missing your SO?
I just started a job yesterday that's going to have me employed for the next month until I head down to be with my SO. I know how lucky we are in that I only have to work for another month before we can close the distance for good. But shit, this is really not what I expected it to be.
I'm a full time student, and now that classes are over I'm just working for a bit to get some extra income. I accepted a job from the place I'd worked at part-time throughout the year to work full-time in a position until they find someone permanent. Perfect, I thought, a temp job where no one will expect much of me and I can just get paid to wait out the next month. Wrong.
I was thrown into this really high-maintenance position without a clue of what I was getting myself into. In the meeting where I accepted the position, my new boss just basically said I'd be scheduling meetings and writing up thank you cards for our sponsors. Well, that was about 5% of what I'll actually be doing. I'm getting a company Blackberry so I can be reached at all hours of the day, and run off my feet during the day doing things I have no clue how to do with limited time frames in which to do them. And it's already an enormous pain in the ass, not just in the sense of being asked to do things well beyond my abilities and expectations, but it's making it really hard for LoveL and I to have any decent time together during the day.
Yes, we've been spoiled in that, since we met, we've always had good chunks of time throughout the day to talk, and most nights from the time we get home until the time we go to bed. I get home pretty late now since LoveL and I have a couple hours' difference so that's already cutting into our time, but this job is already so demanding that there are going to be days where we'll hardly have time to talk during the day too. I know I sound like a huge whiner since we are so lucky in already having the time we do, but it's a big change from what we've had since we met, and it's making me feel pretty upset right now, just having to deal with the stress of wanting to give him all of my time and not being able to, on top of the stress from this job already. I'm only on day 2 and I already miss him like crazy. When I really settle down and think about the fact that it's only a month, it's extra income, and we will still have little bursts of communication, it's not bad. But when I think of having to do this for the next month and having it be as temporarily shitty as it is, it feels bad.
How do you get through craptastic work days and missing your SO?
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