A while back I picked up a part time nursing job at Kaiser hospital because I found myself bored with my days off, so I thought to myself what the heck, i'll get another job. A while back my manager at the part time job said that she really needed the extra help and asked if I could switch to full time there, too. She said she would work around my other full time job schedule. I eventually gave in. So now here I am, working 6 nights a week (oy vey), and I'm averaging about 80 hours per week between both jobs. It's actually not that exhausting as long as I go to sleep as soon as I get home and get ready to go back to work. The only problem is the only thing I do is work, sleep, and eat. That's about all I have time to do now. I don't know how much longer I'll last only having time to do those 3 things. But I will say this.... the positive part about all of this is that my income has more than doubled and I'm bringing home more money per month than any person should be allowed. I sure as heck work for it, though! More bad news is that Uncle Sam is taking out more than twice the amount of taxes with my new income, too
My current job is 32-40 hours a week. I'm thinking of getting a second job to pay down some debt, but I'm reluctant. I've worked 70-hour weeks (between 2 jobs) before, and it got me nowhere. I want to work to live, not live to work.
If I didn't have children, I would be a workaholic. I love to be at work, I really do. So, now I don't think that you are crazy if you can do it, go for it.
Katie5
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Can't wait to be able to do that. A big yaaaaaaaay for you. Crazy???!!! forget crazy...you're nuts! But I'm loving it.:)