I'm a 30-year-old transplant in DC and recently started working 55 hours per week, which is being required of me by my job (that I'm going to keep, and reducing hours/changing jobs isn't an option right now). Because I'm starting to get my feel for the city and have started doing things like joining a church, going to networking events, dating, touching base with old friends, etc. I also find myself with more social invitations than I have in the past. I'm trying to find a balance between letting my friends/church know that I want to spend time with them and the idea that I need time for myself to decompress. There are a lot of moving pieces to this issue and I think part of the problem is that I'm in the habit of working all 55 hours during the week and cramming the weekend with social commitments, which leaves me tired/behind when Monday morning rolls around.
I'd love to know if anyone has any sort of rules that they have set up for themselves, caps, quotas, hour ranges, time management resources, etc. that would help. I'd also appreciate any thoughts on keeping friends with a busy work schedule, whether you're the one with the busy schedule or your friends are. I have a law school classmate who works around 70 hours a week, and he essentially disappeared off the face of the earth. He stopped doing social events with a small group of us, then he stopped doing big networking events and answering texts, then he just stopped showing up to anything and people stopped bringing him up. I don't want to be that person, but I also know that I receive more invitations than my schedule will allow.
Submitted December 12, 2018 at 01:48PM by CantankerousPlatypus https://ift.tt/2GfCttv
