I just started back to work for the peak season. I honestly love my job. It is fast paced. I have to meet a quota, but it's a fun job.
I have worked jobs in the past which did not allow a work and life balance. One of those particular jobs was when we discovered our son was using and abusing heroin and had been for about a year and a half.
I honestly feel like I allowed my job to get in the way of my family life. If I would have been present more at home instead of my job (which wasn't one that was a matter of life and death) that I possibly could have spotted the signs way earlier than a year into his addiction. My kids were adults, but I worked so much I didn't get to see or visit them that often. I don't know. I can't go back and change things now, but I can make a change by allowing myself the work life balance with future jobs.
In the years I worked at that convenience store I wasn't allowed a vacation. Oh I had the hours for it. Actually taking one, nope. Each time I asked was like a colonic. We haven't had a real vacation since 2008. Life, the economy and finances get in the way of getting away and taking a real one. We need one!
Hopefully the next set of challenges on careers will have something for all of us working people!
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