Work Schedule

[LibraryLove]

I just want to vent on here a little bit. Sometimes I just get so sick of my work schedule. I have three jobs, a full time and two part times. Driving time included, I spend over 60 hours a week for work. I do get Sundays off and Saturdays I'm off by two so I do get some time to myself - which is a big improvement from my last job schedule which didn't give me any days off. My current schedule though just gets so draining. For one job, I have to be out the door by 6am at the latest, and then for another job, I don't get home until 8:30/20:30. And then with my full time job, there isn't a lot for me to do, so I end up giving myself personal projects, which is great of course, but it's also sort of frustrating. It makes me feel pointless to be at work when there is never enough to do. Just having to spend so much time at work and not having enough to do to make it feel worth while gets really depressing at times. I just don't want to get to that point where every morning I drag myself out of bed thinking "why do I do this?" or lose the ability to get out of bed at all. I'm a librarian and I really love being one. I just don't want this job to cause me to fall out of love with it.

[quitter333]

Why do you work 3 jobs?

I prefer to go work smarter not harder as I got older and concentrating on one thing was better than on 3.

You know.. brilliance in 1 skill always trumps averageness in 10.

Is this money issue? Do you have many kids or sick parents? If not no money is woeth mental illness.

[LibraryLove in reply to quitter333]

It's a finance issue. I have a lot of student debt still and I have an apartment and a car loan. Unfortunately I fall into the average millennial worker category where my full time does not pay enough for me to work just the one job and afford to live. My two other jobs are to help pay for heat, gas and groceries. I take up extra babysitting jobs just so I can have some spare cash to spend for clothes or small luxuries like buying lunch instead of bringing it from home or buying a cup of coffee. The good part about my current schedule is that it is easier than my old schedule, which didn't give me any days off and sometimes had me up early and then out late until after 11pm. But I had hoped when I got this new job things would feel easier....I have been making efforts to do self care and recognize when I need a day off from everything. But some days it's just not that easy. The only other option I really have right now would be to move back home, but I'm not ready to quit yet.

[quitter333 in reply to LibraryLove]

Never heard of anyone going to jail for SD. Look into insolvency options. I think USA willl include SD in insolventable thing

[LibraryLove in reply to quitter333]

I have tried every option out there for student debt, including refinancing. My thought is to just take each payment month by month. On the bright side, hopefully in four years I'll have all my private loans paid off, which is super soon.

[kittenkisses91]

Hi library love, I’m also a librarian and I understand how hard It is to get a good paying librarian job! I have a full time public librarian job and am considering getting a weekend part time job once I get my mental health under control. Have you looked into public service loan forgiveness for your student debt? I supposedly only have 8 more years to pay the minimum, they forgive everything after 10 years if you work in public service. It’s great that you get to come up with projects to do! I try to make parts of the library “mine” that I can be the expert in and then the rest of the staff can refer people to me for that topic.

[LibraryLove]

Yes I have looked that! And it’s so nice to meet another librarian! It is truly hard to find a good paying job. Maybe if I had my MLS, which I don’t have time to go back and get it right now. My full time is a university librarian job and one of my part times is a public library job