The Family, Work, School Balance
Posted by laxrick on May 26, 2008
Family. School. Work. In that order.
If you’re a student with any of the afforementioned responsibilities, school will be a huge challenge. I consider myself pretty good at time management, and I have a difficult time balancing everything.
I work days, my wife works overnights. I attend one accelerated anatomy class (currently) for twelve hours a week, and I can already feel the stress. The class is four credits in 6 1/2 weeks. I often times leave for work at 8:30am and don’t even get home until 10:00pm, giving me nearly an hour to do schoolwork, household duties, and getting ready for bed so I can efficiently work, learn, and live the next day.
The problem is that nothing ever goes like what I just wrote. That’s my “kittens and moonbeams” version of what I’d like to happen. Of course it never does. The first thing to get cut from home is sleep. In bed by 11:30pm and up by 6:00am gives me 6 1/2 hours of sleep, but if I go less I drag the next day.
One of my kids is always sick or having some sort of emergency. My wife sleeps during the day so I handle any urgent emergencies.
Ugh, what was I thinking not completing college before I got married and had kids…
My words of advice to the next generation: learn first, party later… you’re at a natural advantage when you don’t have any real responsibility.
