I want to slap all of you that complain about sleeping too much. My routine: Stay up too late working on music, hubskiing or watching a movie. -tonight it will be podcasting I hope but I'm waiting on mk, insomniasexx, lil, steve and theadvancedapes to send me audio. Then I fall asleep around 1 or 2am. I then get woken up, even on the weekends sometime between 6:30 or 7:30 am by my daughter saying, "Daddy, it's time to get up and play with me." My typical response is "where is your mommy," but the kid only wants to play with me. -which at any other time later in the day is a compliment but not so much at 6:30am after four or five hours of sleep. I then wake up, have coffee and "play" for a few minutes, i check my email and respond accordingly, I jump in the shower after doing some dishes or straightening up, brush teeth, get dressed and then I take my daughter to violin class, then I grocery shop for the week, then I come home and clean my office and do laundry. By this time it's about 11am. That's my Saturday morning routine.
At the meetup wasoxygen and I were discussing how when you switch from high school to college, you think you used to have it easy. Then you when you switch from college to career, you think you had it easy. Then when you have a kid, you think you had it easy before that. I'm surprised there isn't evidence that parenthood decreases lifespan.
Exactly. If it actually decreased lifespan you'd be gone by now.
damn, is work harder than school? I'm starting an internship on monday, 9-5 job and I was actually looking forward to all the free time i'll have compared to school. I mean, yeah it's 8h a day but there is the huge difference that the hours are predictable (not so much in school, kinda fucks you up to have to wake up at 7 or 11 depending on the day), i'm guessing not so much stress and finally you don't spend every waking hour worrying and trying to organize everyone and their crazy schedule to meet up to do the project. I was counting on the fact that I would do my 8h every day and then have alllll the rest of the day to do whatever I want and enjoy life for once. I mean, I ain't got no kids and live with my parents so as a spoiled brat i don't really need to do laundry of cook a lot... Is work still harder than school!?you switch from college to career, you think you had it easy
I don't miss school at all. The environment was more social, and there was a variety of things to do, but there was always some awful deadline looming. Sunday nights sucked. There are deadlines at work, but they only stress you out at work. It is great to leave at 5 p.m. and be free. Sundays are wonderful. It does help if you can postpone domestic responsibilities. I have more stress from my personal to-do list than I do from work duties. But there are also good reasons that most people follow the typical trajectory. There is a lot of satisfaction to be had from answering the challenges of the catastrophe, and a lot of benefit to being part of a family.[Spouse], children, house, everything. The full catastrophe.