Does it feel to you like\u00a0the days are\u00a0way\u00a0too full?<\/p>\n
How many jobs do you think you have? How many shifts do you cover?<\/p>\n
I reckon I have four. And I think I’m\u00a0not unusual, either.<\/p>\n
Today I was making phone calls at 8 a.m. Had to line up HVAC companies to give me an estimate on heating my basement office (screw the insulation<\/a>). Grilling Chris,\u00a0the construction<\/a> guy,\u00a0about when he’s going to get the cabin work done so that we can take a vacation there.<\/p>\n Then I started\u00a0my day job. \u00a0I mean, the one that I do<\/a> to make money.<\/p>\n In between trying to earn a living, there’s that second job of taking care of the basics of modern life: The tax return. The interruption for one of the HVAC estimates. Answering emails from friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n That would be enough, really.<\/p>\n Then there’s the third job: trying to stay healthy.<\/p>\n I took\u00a0a break to go swimming, and – lucky me – the pool is quiet, no kids<\/a>. Afterwards, a simple whole-food dinner of salad and strip steak.<\/p>\n Just cooking, eating and exercise takes up about three hours a day. \u00a0How to squeeze in meditation? Or art therapy?<\/p>\n But I really want to finish a book<\/a> this year. So\u00a0the fourth job: writing. After dinner I do research for a book on my brain recovery.<\/p>\n By the time I get around to writing my blog, it’s almost always after 9 p.m. and I’m yawning. Gotta do it every day. Plus take photos.<\/p>\n Is it OK to do four jobs as long as you do one thing at a time?<\/a><\/p>\n I know there are plenty of other people who work four jobs – except that one of their jobs is raising children. Or going to college.<\/p>\n When is it too much?<\/p>\n But what would I get rid of?<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 2004, for the 4 jobs I have.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does it feel to you like\u00a0the days are\u00a0way\u00a0too full? How many jobs do you think you have? How many shifts do you cover? I reckon I have four. And I think I’m\u00a0not unusual, either. Today I was making phone calls at 8 a.m. Had to line up HVAC companies to give me an estimate on … read more Quadruple shift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[126,136,164,27,672,259],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-126","tag-health","tag-house","tag-jobs","tag-tired","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7603,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions\/7603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}