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Sensitivity

     My highly sensitive trait is contributing to my workplace anxiety tremendously. I don't do well when I'm dealing with  unorganized work instructions and add a little bit of thick animosity between co workers, and it's a wrap! I can't function in the midst of drama. It makes me feel angry, nervous, antsy, paranoid, etc. I don't like feeling like I'm thrown into the middle of people problems with one another. I was extremely excited about being at a new job! I've just hit a month and it's officially the end of my reign at this job. I've spent the whole day  in deep reflection about it. I take work extremely serious! No matter what wages I earn, I treat each job the same.  I put my best foot forward, and just do what I know I'm suppose to. However, I don't like when I don't see workplace respect in places I work. I know the work world is cut throat, and it's a place of business but I still expect not to be treated like an inferior ...

Conflicting Schedules

    It's always tough when my spouse and I work different work shifts. We have had our share of working different schedules. This is extremely difficult mentally and emotionally sometimes. It's hard to find quality time with one another when our sleep schedules are opposite due to work and the other demands of life. Over the years we have worked very diligently on finding ways to repair our lost time. When possible, we eat lunch together, talk on the phone rather than text during work breaks to catch up on each other's day, play board games, exercise together, cook together, clean together etc. We use to wreck our brains on how to make time for one another when we were off work and complain about how little time we had, but then it occurred to us that spending time doesn't have to be going on our date nights( which we do enjoy) but it's making time to touch base and connect with each other throughout our days when we're not together. It's about doing things ...