Aug 06 2009
Balancing Work and Life
I will make no qualms about it; I am in a high stress career (information technology) and am currently in an even higher stress job. It is even worse now since they cut the staff and everyone is doing the work of two people (or even more people). Although the job pays well, I am wondering how long it will be before I completely burn out.
I am saying that, one must learn how to balance work and non-work in their life. When a job takes up over well over half of the time you are awake (today, for instance, I worked over eleven hours instead of the normal eight and a half) it is time to take inventory of what is most important in your life.
Like I said, my job pays well and I do, for the most part, like it. It is the best company, by far, that I have been with. However, pay is not the first thing (it never has been) I look in a job. What I look for is a challenge. However, this is economy, it is not a challenge when more and more duties are piled on a person. A balance is needed.
One thing that has been taking a beating the past couple of months is my spiritual and prayer life. Usually I have barely enough time in the to do my Morning Prayers before I head off to work and it is even harder now since I am starting to do the older form of the Divine Office. The same can be said for Evening Prayers, I get home and usually I only have a couple of hours before I head off to bed (One thing I try to do is get eight hour of sleep). It seems I have little time for any more with other things I need to get done in the little time allotted.
I am hoping that work may return to some semblance of normalcy soon. One of the major projects I was working on is finally in the final stages and I am ramping down on the time I need to spend on the other major project since the programming part of it is essentially complete. At that time, I am hoping to spend more time on things I want and need to do.
