Creating a balance between work and personal life is very crucial, any work that takes away your freedom is no longer flexible but Ridgid.
We must work to be able to feed, clothe, and do other necessary things in the family. However, finding a flexible work routine is very important.
I remember when I worked in a lounge, first when I started it looked flexible, in the morning you are at home, doing one thing or the other around evening time, you resume work at 4pm.
I thought it was good that I had time in the morning to rest, but little did I know that the job is so tasking that you will be drained completely.
My first week at work was looking like what I would enjoy cause every day brings new, exciting things; being someone who loves learning new things, I was glad I got the job.
I was saying within me, was this what people complain that is stressful, what is the stress there,abeg this one is freedom.
Two weeks into the job, a rooster was drawn on how the work would look like, and our training period was over. My manager said now welcome to the main job.
I was sent to one of the locations on my first day there; I was exhausted, and I came back home the following morning looking like a zombie because, according to my mother, I was walking like a force was pushing me home. As soon as I hit the bed, I sleep off without removing my shoe
I slept till time for work again. We open around 4pm and close whenever the last customer leaves; some guys will come and decide to stay there till daybreak, buying, and drinking.
In that lounge, you can't chase them out; you can't even tell them that we have closed; you will stand from the time we resume until closing time.
Anytime your body is near anything that looks like comfort, straight up, you are sleeping. It was so bad that I quit church cause I do work on Sunday too; I use that Sunday morning to wash my clothes.
I was a student then, and it was telling on my health, my mental health, my knees, waist, everywhere was paining me. I couldn't hang out with friends, it was so exhausting that at my final year in school. I quit the work.
But my current job is not that demanding,when their was no work to do , it boring cause you can come to work and sit down from the time of resumption till closing time doing absolutely nothing but watching movies or gisting
But at times it's very hectic, some days I work so hard, I wouldn't even remember that I haven't eaten. Those period I usually go back home with my food. But sometimes I relaxed, that why I had the chance to even type on hive.
If it was my former work, I won't even have time to write anything online. This current work I have Saturday and Sundays to relaxed and mingle with family, in fact it's very flexible cause it doesn't affect my personal life, their a balance now.
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