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( SingDanceRunLife )
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I'm a recent high school grad. This summer, my plan was to work, a lot...and that's going well. I generally work about 32 hours a week. Well, it turns out that I have to take a math class as well. It starts on Monday and is 5 weeks long, Monday-Friday 8:30-10:20am. I'm sure that there will be many days that I have class and then work in the afternoon. Monday and Tuesday this upcoming week for sure, and Monday and Friday the next week. Now, there's class, and the work for the class, and my job, and trying to do what my parents want around the house, and trying to hang out with friends and enjoy the summer...but there just aren't that many hours in a week. How in the world will I be able to balance all this? There's just under 2 months til I leave for college, and everything needs to go as smoothly as possible between now and then, but I feel like I'm gonna burn out. I know that I'll have to put my social life on the back burner, it's been that way for the past 3 weeks, since I started working so much, but that doesn't mean it's not important ya know? *Sigh* Any words of wisdom?
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It seems like you just have too many things on your plate. And yes, there aren't enough hours in the day or week. The only way to balance of all these things, if you must do all of them, is to develop some sort of schedule. The key is to develop a flexible schedule and be able to switch things. This way you won't get burned out. But it seems you're going to have to get really motivated to stay away from the burnout. Two things you mentioned could be switched and altered as the weeks go on. These two things are friends and work around the house. One day do one and the next day do the other. This may workout for you considering your circumstances. I am going to go ahead and get this out of the way. I'm in college myself and I have to make sacrifices. Sometimes that means excluding some things and working around things. It appears that work, work for school, and class are your top priorities. You may have to work around those things. For instance: One of my classes for the Fall of next year is from 6 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon. I will have to make sacrifices when that comes because that's multiple times a week. Friends may be cut out of my routine a little. Other social gatherings may have to cut out or done less frequently. You may have to make these kinds of sacrifices too. But if you think of it as a temporary lifestyle will pave a way to a lifestyle that is everything awesome, it makes it easier to deal with. So there is a way to balance all of these things. Sometimes that means the hours that these things take up must become lower and/or a simple schedule could be created. Are your work hours flexible? Work for classes flexible?
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Mon - dishes and sinks, class
Tues - dishes and sinks, class
Wed - dishes and sinks, class
Thur - dishes and sinks, class
Fri - class
Sat - rec room or bathrooms
Sun - off? And work typically 4 of those days I hope that's right. :P It seems a social life is very important to you so maybe social events can come on days that you don't have so much going on. Days that you have work and class will probably be by themselves but you can maybe fit some social stuff in there. Days that you just have work and chores could also leave time for social stuff. I wouldn't imagine the chores take up too much time, right? You just have to find a way to balance things. But remember to not overload yourself. If you have to make adjustments, make them. you have mucho on your plate and you have to make some decisions.
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( SingDanceRunLife )
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Days with class and work can't be social. There's no time. Days with just class and chores can be, but those days are limited because I also have physical therapy and driving lessons. I mean, I'm having 1 social day this week, and it's my first in 2 weeks...so I imagine that it'll play out like that for the most part. The reason social life is so important to me is that it's the last summer that my friends and I have together before college, and most of us are going all over the place to different schools.
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