I thrive on structure, and I miss movie afternoon

As you may have noticed from my training log, I thrive on structure and scheduling. It works really well for me to have set schedules and whatnot, something I’m trying to figure out in my current underemployed semi freelance lifestyle.

Freelancing is a bit stressful as the work day is never *over*, and its become all to common for me to step up past my bedtime working on projects in hopes that one may alleviate some of my current financial woes.

This is pretty contrasted to my late ‘04, nearly all of ‘05 lifestyle, when I was back living at my dad’s in IL preparing to move to Boulder. My schedule looked like this:
M-F, 9am-1pm, Help Desk at Conant High School
M-TH, 1:15-3:15, strength training and cardio at nearby gym (did this for a year and never got the results I did with Casey)
M-TH, SUN, 4pm-12:30am, Call Center Technical Support for AIU Online.

Friday afternoons I had off, and I ended up making them my Netflix days. It was the end of my week, I’d grab a subway, roll home, and watch 1 or 2 netflix movies and totally relax. It was fucking awesome, because I wasn’t doing side projects and could completely relax during that few hours, and I really looked forward to it each week.

I’ve haven’t been able to allow myself to do that since finding myself unemployed again, and while I technically have more “freetime”, I somehow feel more stressed out than I did all those months I was working 62.5 hours a week.

Gotta find an integration between the two, as neither extreme seems very healthy.

Popularity: 11% [?]