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Working full time - how do you do it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've just finished my first week at a new job. I like the job, but it's the first time in several years that I've had relatively standard 8 hours a day, 5 days a week as my schedule. The last time I did was in 2019 or so, and then I went and got back into graduate school for the interim.

Now that I'm back to standard hours, the commitment of time and energy seems to be quite a lot, more than I remember from prior ft experience(It could well be that this job is actually mentally demanding, whereas my prior full-time job was pretty brainless) and I'm not sure how I will make room in my life for anything else.

I like the job I'm doing, and I don't feel as if I'm being unreasonably pressured at work (Boss even said to go out of our way not to work overtime, and it's a salaried position so I know they're not trying to skimp on hourly pay), so I guess I'm mainly wanting to ask how the rest of you full-timers do it.

And does it get easier to manage as you start to get used to it and make a routine?

Maybe it feels like quite a basic or rudimentary to ask... But these are things I've forgotten in the interim since last working 40-hour weeks.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The key for me has been finding a job I don't hate, and I don't have to take home with me. Don't get me wrong, I don't LOVE my job, it's not what I'd like to do for the rest of my life or anything, but it's decently manageable most days and I don't have any outside of hours responsibilities.

As an added bonus, I've always been a second shift person ever since highschool and it still works in my life right now. This allows me to spend the hours I have the most energy at home doing what I actually enjoy like my hobbies and such.