stress here, stress there, stress everywhere
I have just wiggled my way out of a project so that I can go to the gym. That project could have paid for a top of the line Bose sound system for my car, but what can I say, I guess I've just been freaking tired the past few weeks. Work has been well, in the sense that the projects have continued to come in truckloads. It's me who can't keep up actually. There are days that I can't bear to look at my email because I was so sure I'd get a panic attack looking at the project queue that has yet to be done. I've just finished a big ass project which was a handbook for university students. The problem was, the time frame given to me was right smack in the middle of my trip to Shanghai with my cousins. So I crammed a project that was supposed to be done in a month into two weeks. My God. Walang tulog the last week, that final stretch killed me. I finally submitted it on Easter Sunday so it was re-birth for me of sorts, I could finally go back to my old routine.
I've realized that you can and will never escape stress. No matter what job you have or what career path you decide to follow. Even if I had followed my life-long dream of selling halo-halo in Boracay, I'd still be stressed because I don't know how to crush ice. So I guess it all just depends on how you react to the stress. Turning that project down felt good, even though it cost me lot. And even though it somehow bruised my feeling-superwoman ego. So I just let go, I guess. Free time can never really be measured in monetary terms. At least I'm thankful that I can actually turn a project down. If I was working elsewhere (like my old job, snort! snort!), turning something down is never an option.
So I've declared today as my free half of a day. That's because I worked on a project this morning and will most probably start on another one this evening. Hahay! I don't even get the luxury of a weekend coz if have something due on Monday, well I gotta work on it that weekend. So the mother-daughter bonding over shopping on a Sunday afternoon I have gotten so used to is now a thing of the past. Oh well, as they say, there are always trade-offs.
Enough of the work stress. I'm gonna write something more cheerful. It's going to be locked of course coz its about a boy. :)
I've realized that you can and will never escape stress. No matter what job you have or what career path you decide to follow. Even if I had followed my life-long dream of selling halo-halo in Boracay, I'd still be stressed because I don't know how to crush ice. So I guess it all just depends on how you react to the stress. Turning that project down felt good, even though it cost me lot. And even though it somehow bruised my feeling-superwoman ego. So I just let go, I guess. Free time can never really be measured in monetary terms. At least I'm thankful that I can actually turn a project down. If I was working elsewhere (like my old job, snort! snort!), turning something down is never an option.
So I've declared today as my free half of a day. That's because I worked on a project this morning and will most probably start on another one this evening. Hahay! I don't even get the luxury of a weekend coz if have something due on Monday, well I gotta work on it that weekend. So the mother-daughter bonding over shopping on a Sunday afternoon I have gotten so used to is now a thing of the past. Oh well, as they say, there are always trade-offs.
Enough of the work stress. I'm gonna write something more cheerful. It's going to be locked of course coz its about a boy. :)