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Hope not to jinx myself, but I feel like I've fixed the work-life balance thing --mainly by getting a job where I only have to work 30-35 hours per week & that's 5 minutes away from my house. Previously I was working 42-45 per week, 2 hours away --plus theater, I was just a hollow shell of a person. I also pretty much cut out theater & my head feels clear for the first time in forever, last year was *really* touch-and-go.
Are the only solutions to do something that you actually care about, or something that you don't have to think to do?
I've never cared particularly about my jobs, as I've said in other threads. I don't think that's the key, though. I really couldn't have cared less about my last job (technical writer), and the result was that I wanted to stab myself in the eyes with hatpins all the time.
I think it's helped that the present job suits me psychologically --for example, I am extremely introverted & the worst job experiences I've had involved being put in a cube next to someone who talked... without... ceasing. My present office geography places me all by myself basically in an office away from the rest of the studio, and I'm actually aware of being happy as a clam with this arrangement.
The down side, I suppose, is that my job at present is what you might think of as low-status. But I walked off the career track ten years ago, and the image is --ha, this is dumb-- Indiana Jones in the third Indiana Jones movie, when he has to cross the chasm & it's a leap of faith.
Bottom line though, I think, is time. I did this insane thing where I made a grid of all the hours in the week & started x-ing out the hours I needed to sleep, shower, work, cook, eat, etc. But it was really helpful, because I found that I was expecting myself to do something like 30% more stuff than I had time.
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