Random Monday

Well I never thought, nor did I ever want to become a workaholic...but here I sit on a Monday night, sending out e-mails and fixing a few files. I think with the invention of technology (computers, blackberrys, etc.), it's made work too accessible, and employers now think that we are at their every beck and call, no matter the time or the day. What happened to having a 9-5 job, 40 hours a week, I swear that doesn't happen much of anywhere anymore. It's really quite scary when you think about it. I don't know what constitutes a work-a-holic, but I was adding up the hours that I've worked in the last month and it actually took be my suprise. I knew I worked alot, but this is insane. In a month, the normal hours a person should work, if they were to work the standard 40 hour work weeks, they would have worked 160 hours. I have worked somewhere around 293 hours in the last month....over 100 hours in over-time. In those terms, I should be rich...not so, because if you are a salaried employee there is no such thing as over-time pay. This is crazy, there has to be a time when you realize you need to find the balance between working and having a life. So that is my new goal, to figure out a solution so that I don't wake up one day and realize I worked my 20's away. It's hard though when you work for a company that doesn't understand that there needs to be a balance to have happy, HEALTHY, well rounded employees. For example, we just got an e-mail the other day saying that none of us on the sales team were to assume we have any weekend off from now through the end of October, even if it's not our events, we may have to work. So we're not supposed to make plans on the weekend unless it is cleared by management. Talk about feeling defeated. I honestly think that's why I'm sick, I've just worked myself sick, and with no more paid days to take off, I can't afford to take a sick day. waa, waa...talk about a depressing post....sorry to have bored you all in to oblivion..haha! Ahh the joys of self reflection.

On a side note, I got home tonight, not feeling so hot so I just wanted to lay around and watch the Bachlorette. Apparently Tucker was feeling starved for attention, because he chewed up 2 different pairs of shoes! He's starting to get naughty!

I don't really have any big plans for the 4th, I wish it fell on a weekday so I got a day off, but it's on a Saturday this year! I'll probably just hang out on the boat (cross your fingers for nice weather), maybe take in a Twins game, hang out with my friends that are still in town. I'm watching Abbey and Justin's little dog, Nemo while they are gone up north for the week. Tucker will have a friend for a few days! Hopefully they get along :)



"Part of me wants safety, wants to go back to how things were, to a life that I could predict, where I know how life is going to be. And the other part of me wants to go somewhere else, into the unknown." -Roswell