Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:39 AM
All Work, No Play?
By Jeanine
I don’t know when or how it happened, but last night I finally started to see what my friends and family have been telling me for a few months now. I was having dinner with a friend and I finally took note that almost everything I said related somehow to The Nest.
My name is Jeanine and I am a workaholic. Not in bad way, though. It’s just that even when I’m not at work, I tend to think about work, a lot. And I talk about work quite often, too -- more than people I know probably care to hear about it. All of my friends, none of whom are married or even over 25, know way more than they should about weddings, merging your spaces, combining bank accounts, buying a house, having babies, etc. And even my mom who is far gone out of the newlywed bracket occasionally slips up and calls my dad DH. Who’s to blame for all this? Me.
Sometimes I feel like I can’t help it, though. I really enjoy what I do here at The Nest and like with anything that makes you happy, you want to share it with people you love. But I can appreciate that I am getting a little extreme. I had bronchitis last week, but couldn’t bring myself to take the day off to get better. I wanted to come to work, even if I didn’t feel well. More and more often, I’ll wake up in the middle of the night because I have an idea for The Nest and I can’t go back to sleep until I write it down so I don’t forget it. And after months of eye rolls, I can tell that my friends are a little (or a lot) tired of hearing so much about newlywed matters when most of us don’t even have serious boyfriends.
In all honesty, though, I don’t know how to balance my personal and professional lives. How do you keep your job from taking over every other part of your life?