Ercassesanwi - April 16th, 2005
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Caution: Whining in Progress
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I have worked fifty-three hours this week already, and I'm not finished. I had already planned to take a two-hundred-plus-page deposition home to finish over the weekend. At my Friday-afternoon deposition, which ended after five o'clock, the attorney asked for her certified copy by Tuesday. Of course, by that time, I couldn't get it to a typist to type up over the weekend. So I get to bring home that as well.
Friends told me not to worry about work Friday evening, so we went out to eat and stayed up late watching movies. I awoke at four A.M. on the couch. (Apparently I had refused to get up and go to bed, though I remember nothing of the kind.) I then made it to my bed. I awoke after noon. For those of you who don't know me, I never sleep that late. Sleeping till nine-thirty is a pretty big deal for me. Now I feel as though I've wasted the day, and my guilt complex is setting in on top of my frustration at feeling behind at work. And who knows when I'm going to put away the clothes I washed last weekend, which are still in a nice pile in front of my closet.
You may wonder why I'm bothering to write about my troubles instead of getting to work. Well, I needed sympathy, and what better way is there to reach millions of people at one time with one's woes? Now that I have Internet access, I have another distraction from work, and I intend to make the most of it.
I have decided that I will never become a workaholic. It isn't that I have made a commitment not to do so, it is that I have realized that this tendency is alien to me. I am glad that I am at last working on commission and will get some monetary compensation for the amount of work I'm doing, but I find that it isn't worth it. If I had to choose between the extra commission money I will make and the time I have to spend making it, I would choose the time every time. Working sixty hours a week is most definitely not worth it.
Current Mood:  frustrated
Tags: work
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