How do you balance work and home life?
I worked as a nurse for the first twenty-four years of my life, it was kind of hard to physically bring that work home, although easy to bring what’s in your head through the door.
If there’s any benefit to being a natural born ice queen, inherently cool, who easily detaches from things and loves to cut ‘n run, it would come in handy here. So no, for the most part I left work at work and home was home.
There were times when I’d find myself coming home and complaining about work but not necessarily the work itself, it was more the procedures, the management, some coworkers and I’d realize it’s time to make a change.
My current job, teaching at the College, blends with my home life like peanut butter and jelly. It couldn’t be more perfect. The days aren’t long. Weekends off (can never take that for granted after working shift work for years and years), summers off, all the holidays off.
There’s just one little part of my job that makes me quiver and that’s having to take my students out to the personal care home and hospital for the clinical portion of the course. Bye bye bankers hours. We start at 0645 hours each morning.
That does throw a bit of a wrench into mine and Sid’s morning routine as I can’t take him to daycare that early and Clint’s already at work at that time. Thankfully the girls are here and will help out with getting him up and to his “work”. Also, this only lasts three weeks so not really that big of a deal.
PS I read a quote this morning that said “Be loyal to your future, not your past”, don’t know who said it or who to give credit to, but I love it.
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