My brain is fried with exhaustion

LegacyUser

My employer recently got me to join a course, just to get it over and done with sooner rather than later, and to have the qualification under my belt for the future. I paid for the course out of my own pocket, something i was happy to do and the course - well I was happy to get started.

I work long hours during the week, so finding the time during the week to do the coursework is difficult but I did get a little bit done. Weekends I should have off and I was hoping to get a lot of coursework done at weekends, however my employer has called on me a lot, to do extra hours at weekends, over the past couple of weeks. Working these longs hours, meant I'm usually wrecked tired whenever I do get the time off. I also suffer from migraines. They come and go in spells I find. So if I had a day off after working hard, I find I would wake with a migraine. There were some days I had off where I was flattened in the bed sick. Which meant I had very little time to do any coursework. I thought I would have been able to do all this work - work, and the course but I can't. Or at least not without getting time off.

So I'm sitting here today, in front of books, with a sh*t load of course work to do in such little time. Its just not humanely possible to do it all. I am sick to my stomach. I have not washed myself in days. I have so much laundry to wash and chores to do. Everythign is piling up on me and I have no time to do it all. And my mind is gone completely blank I cannot think or write a thing for coursework and I don't have much time left for the course before it ends. All I want to do is wash myself and sleep right now.

tenchi-fan

Hi
I feel for you! I had a job like that a few years ago when I was doing exams at the same time and it's no quality of life.

My current employer gets me to do fiddly courses the whole time but fortunately I have flexi-time at work so I can leave at 4pm Fridays and be home by 6pm (damn daily commute) and I can take one day a month to chillax and recouperate when I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed.

My advice to you... just relax a bit! It takes no more than 5 minutes for a quick shower so maybe you should do that before your neighbours start complaining.

Put all your laundry in a bin-liner and take it to the laundrette and let them wash and iron it for you. It's a once-off so don't worry about the expense.

And considering taking a day's annual leave or even a sick day some Friday and treat yourself to a full day of doing nothing. It will give you something to look forward to.

And maybe just explain to your employer that your workload is a bit high and you have very little time to work on your project. See if he will give you a day or even a half day's paid leave.. if you don't ask you won't get! I asked my employer for a day's study leave for a multiple choice exam and was surprised that she agreed to it!

You just need to stop things like this getting you down.

LegacyUser

hi stressed out
i really felt reading your post that i had wrote it myself !
i really feel for you , am in same situation at moment-
my advice is 1. you need to learn say no and have to make time for yourself
2. talk to your lecturers- cant do any harm. 3. talk to your boss- again no harm , 4, make a time table out - write down what you have done, draw up table what needs be done and just work through it bit by bit-

all you can do is your best and really you have take time for yourself, i have told myself in last few weeks that i have no time for exercise , and it does not work- you cannot work work work without any rest- mind and body need rest, take care

haha after reading that , now all i need do is take bit my own advice