My new job has been going great! I now have a set schedule that doesn’t include nights, weekends, or rotating shifts. I, however, feel like I am home less than I was before. Ille and I car pool into downtown getting me to work by 7:15 so she can get to work by 7:30. She gets off at 4:30 and can pick me up by around 4:45. It takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 30-45 minutes to downtown and the same back home.
The biggest, and maybe the only reason I feel this way is the drive time. It took only 7-10 minutes to get to my last job without ever getting on the freeway. That alone would give me at least an extra hour at home, not have to go to bed early or get up early either. Now I go to bed around 10 or 11, whereas before, I wouldn’t go to bed earlier than midnight. This is due to having to get up by about 5:30-6:00 every morning to get ready, get the dog out, prepare breakfast and lunch before leaving by 6:30-6:45.
This maybe how I feel, but I wouldn’t give this up now that I have all my nights and weekends free. No more checking my schedule to make sure I can make a family gathering to see if I work. No more having to sacrifice making one event to be able to go to another. It was becoming harder to judge which event was more important to be able to make it to when I saw them all as being important.
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