How hectic is your life?

Nitefly said:
C'mon students, don't even pretend we know the wrath of true work stress :p
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Meh, when you're working to a tight deadline and presenting that work to industry professionals as a proper piece of industry standard work. When the first thing they say about your course is "it's the hardest thing you will do in your life, work is less strenuous" and when you've alread spent some time working... I'd say it is knowable...:p

Most undergrads on the other hand...:p
 
Amp34 said:
Meh, when you're working to a tight deadline and presenting that work to industry professionals as a proper piece of industry standard work. When the first thing they say about your course is "it's the hardest thing you will do in your life, work is less strenuous" and when you've alread spent some time working... I'd say it is knowable...:p

Most undergrads on the other hand...:p
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Sounds a dossy wuss course tbh ;)
 
It'll turn out that learning Daslight will be 100x easier than any Linux programming.

My life is hectic because I have no time to do anything else. Being at school as well as working part time as a DJ (kid's discos) and as a lighting technician for a corporate event lighting company means that most evenings I work my butt off and sleep and restart with school the next day.
 
Pretty busy at work and in most weekends as my cell cultures don't like being left longer than a couple of days.

When I'm not at work, working at home or thinking about work, I'm cooking, washing, cleaning or teaching myself Python (with a view to applying it to my work). Fun times.
 
Work gets a bit manic quite often, but usually only in small bursts. Faintly stressful I suppose, but largely because I'm new at my job, it's become much easier as I've settled in. I work hard, imo, but it's not like I'm flat out all the time with deadlines all over the place.

At home, not really. Pretty standard.
 
Turned nocturnal in an attempt to get this final year project done for Wednesday (actually due Friday). Problem is I have another bit of work due for Friday and haven't even looked at it. Life is pretty hectic right now, I much prefer the working life.
 
Extremely hectic. I work in the IT Industry and this is a ***** that never sleeps. Although my work hours are 10-6 usually I am in by 9 and go home for 6.30 Then a couple of hours work at night. Plus some time with my two kids and the missus. Top it off I run my sons football team which takes up a hell of a lot more time than the 45 minutes on a Saturday morning. If a wonder treatment could be invented that would allow you to sleep for one or two hours with the benefit of an eight hour kip, then sign me up.

Your a long time dead so I want to do as much in my time as I can. Although I would be the first to admit that my work life balance is a bit out of kilter
 
The wife and I are usually quite busy, I work full time, the wife works part time 20hrs per week, we have 2 kids, one is at school the other is a toddler.

Add into that swimming club and football club 2 or 3 evenings a week, and the fact that the Mrs can sometimes start at 7pm and not get home till 11:30pm it can sometimes get a bit much.

That said once 7pm hits and the kids are in bed we can get on with what we want to do.
 
Far too hectic!

Full time job: HR & Payroll supervisor - 44 hours a week
Weekend job: Harbour master
On call 24/7/365 - HM Coastguard
On call 24/7/alternate weeks - Ambulance First Responder

Also organising a triathlon single handily, which takes a few months
Also fixing a couple of PCs/laptops a week for friends
Also starting up a new website
Also preparing to re-enter education in September and leave my home for a 6 yr medicine course
Also cox a couple of gig crews 3 times a week
Also seeing a special friend who takes up 4 nights a week
 
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Other than work and daily life - it's not too hectic.

Work between 45-50hrs a week.
Go to the gym 3-4x a week
Keep the house tidy
Don't have any kids to worry about
Currently don't have another half to worry about

So really life is just bobbing along without too much stress. Still, going on holiday in 3 weeks which I cannot wait for!
 
Like Zootfloot, I also have kids. At the risk of sounding like just another parent, the meaning of the word busy changes when you have kids. Until they reach early teens, you are pretty much living their life with them. I'm lucky if I get a couple of hours gaming a night.
 
Workdays are horribly, stressfully (at times) hectic. Generally work 11 hour days and this still leaves me carrying armfuls of jobs forward every day as well and no, I'm not a poor managerjust have very busy job.

I contrast that with my personal life where I probably don't get enough done much too the annoyance of the missus. On days off I couodbe accused of being horizontal evenwgen not in bed.
 
Nice and relaxed, have a full time job which I love, a mortgage which doesn't leave me broke every month, don't have any kids, get to go on holiday at least twice a year and most importantly I live far away from the rest of my mental family :D
 
Not overly. Work is quiet at the moment so I leave around 2pm. On the golf course for 2:30pm and home by 7pm. Spend some time with the new girlfriend, reading, cooking. Nothing too hectic or out of the ordinary. I try and sort my life out so I can have the most possible free time a man could have. Don't like being rushed off my feet any more. Gets you nowhere and it's just a waste of perfectly good time.
 
OP how did you get into that ? im sure all my mate does is something similar (installing sound/lights at clubs/festivals) and he had to study sound engineering at uni beforehand aswell as moving half way across the country for the job.
 
My life doesn't exist anymore... I'm training to be a secondary school music teacher, play in a band, and work at a local Saturday morning music school.

Up at 6, 40 minute drive into school for 7:40. Teach all day, and stay in school till 5 or so. Twice a week we stay till 6 for the course lectures. Then I come home, eat dinner and plan lessons until about 11pm when I go to bed.

Weekends, up for music school, finish at 1pm, usually have a few hours for planning before shooting off to wales, brighton, london, yorkshire or the midlands for a band gig, often home at 2 or 3am. Sundays are often a full day of planning (I spent a solid 10 hours on my assignment last week), often a sunday gig too. Then up at 6 on Monday :(

Currently posting from home, I'm off sick after having a bit of a meltdown last weekend - worked like this for something like 30 days solidly since last half term. Apart from the news on over breakfast, I've not watched telly, read any of my book, even turned on my xbox during term time since September... hate it!

Seriously considering not being a secondary school teacher come september!
 
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