How busy is your life outside of work?

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And how do you feel about it?

I actually feel like I do *more* hustling and running around and multitasking outside of work hours than I do 9 to 5, particularly because my job involves sitting at a desk with my iPod. I don't actually have much of a social life, but I do have classes, various vanity projects and seemingly hundreds of miscellaneous errands to run at any given time. It never really seems to stop. Sometimes I like it, but sometimes I have trouble relaxing, learning to just read a book or play ps2, and I have a hard time explaining to people that I am always so busy and why.

How about you?

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Did you remember to pick up my shirts, adam?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

My To Do list is longer than the fucking Koran.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

(no disrespect to the Koran intended)

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

The Five Pillars: groceries, laundry, post office, bank, sandwich.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

POST OFFICE

how I hate you, let me count the ways

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

As I work seven days a week, I have little life outside it. I usually sit behind the comp and play some music, watch some telly, fall asleep. Repeat at nauseam.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I do love sandwich, though.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

See? That sounds nice, but there are so many things I want to do.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

...any vacation in the future?

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Instead of listening to iPod for music, use iPod for learning! Learn a new language at work!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm way busier outside of work than I am at work. Also, I'm in much more in the way of leadership roles outside of work than I am at work. And I've recently theorized that the reason for that is, at a job, everyone is trying to make himself look good and doesn't want to allow other people to lead.. In volunteer/nonprofits (I'm involved in three different ones) people are doing what they can to push work off on other people.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I guess my life isn't that busy outside of work in the sense that you're talking about. I do laundry at home, grocery shop with my girlfriend a few times a month, never physically go to the bank (just the drive-through ATM), and even the post office seems to be saying open later (like until 6!) so I can go after work. I do spend a lot of time reading etc. at home.

Playing gigs and doing other music stuff takes up a lot of nights and weekends though, and when they pile up and I feel like I haven't been able to do laundry or do the dishes for a week I start to freak out a little.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

...any vacation in the future?

I'm hopefully going to London in September.

Instead of listening to iPod for music, use iPod for learning! Learn a new language at work!

Yes! My brother got me some Learn Spanish CDs for my birthday for some strange reason, but I might do that!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I might be guilty of trying to do too much. I take classes in the evenings, usually two a week, also I try and get to the gym 4 or 5 times a week, and I sell/list a lot of things on Ebay, and I make movies, and I'm kind of a neat freak...

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

...and I don't have many clothes, so I probably go to the laundry more than a lot of people.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you could make movies at the laundromat and take classes at the gym to save time?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I thought about filming in the laundromat but the guy in there is crazy! He made us leave through the back entrance last week because he said there was a pitbull out front! We left and looked back and it was just a spaniel!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

That would have made a great short!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Alas.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I always feel like I have more to do outside of work than I really do. I just tend to stress myself out with mental To Do lists (mental as in both "mental" and "mental.") Sometimes, it helps me to try to think of things I can accomplish in my personal life at work, like updating my online bill pays, mailing stuff along with the office mail, or working on lyrics. I've even taken to washing my lunch tupperware in the dishwasher here, so I can bring it home clean.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that all seems good, though I get conscious of doing too much "outside" stuff at work. Some people here have huge containers of food and eat breakfast and lunch here, just read in the kitchen at lunch, it's like they're moving in!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

"I always feel like I have more to do outside of work than I really do. I just tend to stress myself out with mental To Do lists (mental as in both "mental" and "mental.")"

This is SO me. I can't relax without worrying about what I should be doing and all that has to be done. Sometimes I get so caught up in the process of thinking about it all it seems overwhelming so I don't accomplish anything. Talk about "mental" I am a case! At work I am so organized and "together" but outside the office in my personal life I am out of control. Stacks of things to file on a chair, projects to do, list of things to do: groceries, car wash, post office, etc. Insanity. Bah! Just thinking about it makes me cringe.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

It's not at all.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

My job is a lot of driving, running errands, finishing projects so I constantly feel busy even when I realize that I'm actually only working 6 hours a day including driving.

Any busy feelings outside of work are generated purely by procrastination - I feel the weight of all the stuff I need to throw up on Ebay, but if I just sat down and busted out the scans and auctions I'd be done.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

My time at work is often a break, a vacation from the rest of my life. The time I spend outside the work is usually so stuffed with running errands, taking Mom everywhere she wants/needs to go, doing things around the house, etc., and on top of all that, school from August - May until the end of next year, that usually my time at work is the most relaxing and enjoyable part of my day. I suspect that this is exactly the same situation millions of other people experience throughout this country.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

V V V V V V BUSY

― I shift gears when I see tears (deangulberry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

not very busy, but varied, interesting and pleasant

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

It's as busy as I make it, which I am wont to do these days. I think after a couple of years on my own and getting the last, kinda miserable months in my old place out of my system, I'm starting to feel a little lonely again, I admit. Time will tell. In the meantime, I keep busy as noted, whether meeting up with friends or doing stuff or writing or whatever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

The internet is your friend when it comes to getting those annoying errands done. I havent seen the inside of a bank or post office in years, because I pay all my bills online (Bpay rocks), and do many other banky transactions online - getting money out of an atm's the only one I do otherwise.

As I dont drive, I've also found online grocery shopping, delivered to your door (pay with mobile EFTPOS - brilliant!) is a fantastic time saver and means I can buy heavy items like cat litter and tons of canned goods in one heap.

I feel busy a lot, but I know I'm not. I do minor grocery shopping after work or pay the rent, I come home and do the housework and cook dinner for me and muh boy, then I flake on the couch and fall asleep. I could never have after work hobbies and gym and stuff - no energy@!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

No life beyond work, really, except for compulsively stabbing at the Refresh button on New Answers. :(

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

You sit at your desk with your iPod on?

My outside life is hugely dominated by baby care, which means its sleeplessly busy -- so much so that it makes other non-work activies like freelancing, job-searching (I'm desperate to change jobs) and just boppin' around very difficult.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

just boppin' around

My mom says "bop." You are, like, such a Dad, dude.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

You sit at your desk with your iPod on?

...and administer a database and run reports. But look, I'm obviously a compulsive poster, I'm not dumb enough to pretend my job is stressful or demanding.

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

i always wear my ipod at my desk too. my life outside of work frightens me with its hectic pace. work is the only time i get to chill and surf the net.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

i'm always busy but i never seem to get anything done, either.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 17 June 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

i'm also constantly stressed about the amount i have to do outside of work (my dayjob that is) and yet my life is also seemingly full of long boring stretches.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 17 June 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

I'm looking forward to work. I've been too idle for the past ten years.

― youn, Friday, 17 June 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

when I was in a band & had a girlfriend, I use to cherish a night on my own it was bliss. Just one night a week, with no music or girlfriend was all I asked.

Now I quit the band & dumped the girlfriend I have too much spare time, I find myself looking for things to watch on TV. It’s shit; a happy medium is the answer for me.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 17 June 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Life outside of work? No I don't think I have much of that at the present time.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 June 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

it feels busy, although i also feel like i don't accomplish much. outside of work, work obligations, and gym 4-5x/wk it's all i can do to get out once a week. i'm afraid of being struck off various social registers because i don't attend even a third of the things that i'm invited to, but at the same time when i get a few quiet hours by myself i'm loath to surrend them.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 17 June 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

the blur between 'work' and 'social life' in what i do confuses things, but right now - not sure... have pretty much been 'working' non-stop since 30th may now, on a big assignment (from travel and research and interviews, to transcription and writing and rewriting at home), and in my newly-single status, that feels good. what doesn't feel so good is that the best connection i seem to have with anyone at the moment is an email buddy living 3000 miles away, who i seem to be falling for (the connection feels good, but i fear it may lead to heartache), and my tolerance for the people in my blurred work/social life seems to be waning, my fascination with it all suffering. and it seems that same blurred work/social life means i will be in regular contact with my ex, who is a great person, but whose presence jolts me in a horrific way at the moment.

on the plus side, i have been spending much time with my friends, flirting with cute posh girls playing cluedo, and the trip for the assignment just recharged about every battery i had. work is going really well; the irony is, i've always known that would never be *enough, but everything else is pretty much dead and shrivelled up right now. big parties and social events are a bit of a nightmare at the moment.

― blah, Friday, 17 June 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

http://www.thelocalq.com/blogs/wonderyears/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Jacob_McGuire-13a.jpg

― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 11 August 2013 15:01 (twelve years ago)

this isn't this month's wdyll thread, nakh

― markers, Sunday, 11 August 2013 16:43 (twelve years ago)

Urban Classic Prom 2013 from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Lady Leshurr performs Blazin' (arranged by Jason Yarde) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley.

― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 11 August 2013 17:30 (twelve years ago)

I swore in the new year I was going to do more things that didn't involve gazing at a screen (computer, tv, or movie)...and then my work started spilling over into my evenings and weekends.

― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Thursday, 15 August 2013 02:04 (twelve years ago)

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