5 Reasons it Sucks to Work Full Time

Today I realized something. Sometimes, having a full time job sucks.

With this thought I decided to put together a list of reasons why.

1. Most people spend about 17 hours a day awake. With a full time job you spend at least 8 of those hours at work. For me, I spend an hour getting ready, 30 - 45 minutest to get to work and 30 - 45 getting back home. There is already 10 hours of my day.

2. If you work first shift, like I do, you get off work just in time to rush to get things done before everything closes up. I get off work around 4 everyday, take in the time to drive, the fact that banks and offices close at 5...it's a rush to get anything done. (Luckily my mom helps me out.)

3. Not many doctors offices or dentist stay open past 5 or 6 pm. So if you have medical issues you have to miss work. Missing work means one of two things, (1) You miss out on those few hours of money. (2) You have to stay even later the rest of the week to make up for it. Not cool.

4. By the time you get home you are so tired you can't do much of anything. This may just be me...but once I get home I am whooped. Today I came home from work not realizing how tired I was. I sat to watch a little T.V. to chill out, I woke up two hours later. I so did not mean to fall asleep.

5. All day you think about ALL the things you could be doing if you were at home or not tied to a desk.

So there you go. The 5 reasons it sucks to have a full time job.

Tomorrow I will give you the 5 reasons it rocks to have a full time job. Cause every negative thing usually has at least one positive thing to counter it.

To all you full time employees out there, I feel your pain, but I love the money!

Much Love,
Heather

Sometimes secrets come out

I had planned on blogging about the whole SOPA thing, but you should all know what that is by now. If not...google it.

Then I was going to blog about parents watching their kids better, but I will save that for another day.

Why?

Well, I found out a secret today that has me totally freaking out! It's one of those secrets that makes everything make sense.

I started my new job back in September. I was supposed to help pull data and put it into the system. I was pretty much hired to be an assistant. Yeah, I was a little ashamed when I realized that. I sat at my computer with nothing to do really, so I pretended to work. Then, suddenly I am learning new things. I am learning new programs and being introduced to a database creating program. I won't say the name because then you might figure out where I work and...I might get in trouble for that.

My coworker, the one that has been teaching me all this stuff has all of a sudden started teaching me everything he knows.

Now, something my dad has always drilled into my brain for...ever. You NEVER teach someone everything you know about a job. Most of the time, you teach yourself the job. And teaching someone everything you have learned on the job is giving that person a way to go beyond what you have taken a while to learn yourself.

At first, when my coworker started teaching me all this stuff I thought he was being nice. I thought he really wanted to help me go far in the company. I totally trust people and take things for face value way to much and way to easily.

Today, my coworker received a phone call today and of course I eavesdropped...a little bit. By the content that I heard I already assumed it was a job offer. When he got off the phone he told me that I should learn this program because I could get a really good job with it and that was what his call was about.

Now, he didn't say straight up that he had another job or that he was leaving so I could totally be jumping to conclusions. But, it all makes sense now. All the pieces are coming together and painting this awesomely great picture of what I am about to fall into. I followed the rabbit and I am about to fall into the rabbit hole!

What is about to happen is my coworker is going to try and cram my brain with everything he can before he leaves me to take on all this work. All of it on me...just me.

A few questions come to mind. Will they bring in another person to help me? Did they bring me in because they knew my coworker was getting ready to leave? Will they expect too much for me? And finally, why did I not see this coming?!

I am going to have to bust my tail to learn these programs before I am left alone to fend for myself. I have so much to learn and understand. OMG! This is going to be crazy. *Panic attack* AHHHH!!!

Wish me luck!

Much Love
Heather

Resisting Temptation

First, sorry for not posting the past two days. Things got crazy, I got tired, I didn't blog. Simple as that. I do realize that I should probably have a few back up blogs for such moments, I just have to actually stay home long enough to write more than one blog. And I have to have more ideas of what to write. I know that my life is not fun to read about. Though I am in the process of changing that.

Now, on to today's blog!

I lost one pound last week. ONE POUND! I am grateful for that one pound but also a little disappointed in myself. I could have done so much more to lose more weight. Though, the good news is, I only worked out twice last week and probably not even 30 minutes on those two days. So this could be a good thing.

Things I would like to work on this week:

• Work out more
• Drink more water
• Make better food options
• Not sleep so much

I will admit that temptation is just to easy to give in to. I fought all day not to eat a doughnut that mom brought home the other day. Tonight, after dinner, I ate that stupid doughnut. I also drank Dr. Pepper and a Pepsi. I didn't log my points for yesterday or today. Yeah, this week is not starting off so good but I WILL be back on track come morning. 

There is so much that I am trying to fix within myself this year. There are so many aspects of me that need to be worked on. I think too much about the things I don't have and thank to little about the things I do have. I need to change that. I need to realize that while I do have a butt ton of bills to pay, I do have a job that allows me to pay those bills and still have a little left over for myself. Even though I may not make it out to see my friend in Colorado this year I know that I will make it out to see her one day soon. And while I may not have a boyfriend I should remember that I don't have someone that wants to know my every move. 

My goal for this week, aside from my fitness goals, is to be more grateful for what I do have. To enjoy the blessings that are already in my life. And while I enjoy those blessings I will focus on what I can do to bring more of those blessings into my life. 

Much Love

~Heather