shiplocks-of-love replied to your post “Man, today was a shitshow. It started with getting nearly...

shiplocks-of-love
replied to your post “Man, today was a shitshow.  It started with getting nearly run over…”

Goodness, that was an eventful day. So, basically you don’t have days off, if you need to work even partial days on Sundays and Mondays. That sucks - hard for you to recover properly! Sometimes the world seems to conspire to bring us spectacularly crappy days. Sending you a hug!

Yup. Exactly. No days off. It sucks. Basically how it works is: I have a full-time job, but the hourly wage is total crap, only just above minimum wage, and the cost of living in my city is high. So I also teach voice lessons two evenings per week, because it pays more than 3x what the other job pays per hour, but it’s also more intense (because teaching one-on-one just is), but it’s also in the domain that I have a masters in (classical singing), so that’s nice, in a way? It’s definitely nice to have a job that pays me at the value I feel I merit, if that makes sense. But I’m still constantly, constantly struggling to make ends meet (hence my timid reminder to folk the other day that I have a Patreon page, though it didn’t score me a single new donor, haha (*despair*)), yet working practically around the clock. Mondays are my “day off”, ish, but not the evening. On Tuesdays I work all day at the museum, then teach a bunch in the evening. I just lost two students (an adult who decided she can’t afford it anymore, and a 12-year-old that I was all too happy to lose bc she decided she wanted to take dance lessons instead, so it’s fine, but also less $$). Wednesday evenings are about to get busy with a volunteer thing that may lead to decent choral conducting work in the future, but not as yet (this is part of me attempting to re-establish myself in my home city after years away). Thursday nights I have church choir, which I do for fun and which is genuinely relaxing. Friday evenings are sacred and I generally keep them free to hang out with my bff. We do food and movies. It’s our thing. His husband can’t eat or doesn’t like most of the food my bestie likes (he has IBS and also a SUPER vanilla palate), and also doesn’t enjoy sitting through movies, so it’s perfect, as it’s been our main hangout activity for 20 years now. Saturday evenings are also usually free, hence the main spate of cleaning I did tonight. And then Sundays are free once I’m done church, but I often end up having family stuff. Happily I don’t tomorrow, so the bff and I are going for dinner (Indian! Whoo!) and then rewatching the first three episodes of Patrick Melrose. :) And then on Monday I’m going to actually sleep more than 5 hours. It will be *amazing*.