Juggling Work, School, and Family
Juggling Work, School, and Family
When I decided to go back to school, I realized it would have a lot of consequences and not only for me, but also on my family and maybe also my daily job. I work a fulltime job; I’m married and have a daughter and a son still living with me. With all that considered, I had to work out all the possible effects it would have on all the effects it may have. I work as an “accounts receivable analyst”, what is a very demanding job, and I had to make sure that no matter what, my daytime job did not sacrifice. Although my company they willing to support me to go back to school and also paying for it, they still expect that all my duties are done at the end of the day, and so far I manage to do so.
I started with classes online only, thinking that it was easier to manage time, but it still took more time than what I had planned, and my family did not liked that it the beginning at all. For them, they had to do a lot of activities and duties without me. One example of them was that they had to provide their own meal several times a week, and they were not used to do that.
One consequence of working and going to school at the same time is that we had to sit down and made a schedule, but unfortunately that is not always working out, if I have to study longer than planned or sometimes important things will come up, what it makes it necessary to change the schedule. My family does not always handle that the in a way I would like for them to do. They may not say it out loud, but you can see them frowning about it and giving little hints like, “it would be nice to have someone cooking a meal”. Another big problem is, to finding the time to schedule and to prepare meals. However, only having good intentions is not enough, I need to find a way to make it work. Many times we have to pick up prepared food or just grabbing a snack, which my son Anthony does not mind at all: however my husband is not always pleased with it. What I really
When I decided to go back to school, I realized it would have a lot of consequences and not only for me, but also on my family and maybe also my daily job. I work a fulltime job; I’m married and have a daughter and a son still living with me. With all that considered, I had to work out all the possible effects it would have on all the effects it may have. I work as an “accounts receivable analyst”, what is a very demanding job, and I had to make sure that no matter what, my daytime job did not sacrifice. Although my company they willing to support me to go back to school and also paying for it, they still expect that all my duties are done at the end of the day, and so far I manage to do so.
I started with classes online only, thinking that it was easier to manage time, but it still took more time than what I had planned, and my family did not liked that it the beginning at all. For them, they had to do a lot of activities and duties without me. One example of them was that they had to provide their own meal several times a week, and they were not used to do that.
One consequence of working and going to school at the same time is that we had to sit down and made a schedule, but unfortunately that is not always working out, if I have to study longer than planned or sometimes important things will come up, what it makes it necessary to change the schedule. My family does not always handle that the in a way I would like for them to do. They may not say it out loud, but you can see them frowning about it and giving little hints like, “it would be nice to have someone cooking a meal”. Another big problem is, to finding the time to schedule and to prepare meals. However, only having good intentions is not enough, I need to find a way to make it work. Many times we have to pick up prepared food or just grabbing a snack, which my son Anthony does not mind at all: however my husband is not always pleased with it. What I really