Comments on: Still hanging in there…barely! http://www.erica.biz/2005/still-hanging-in-therebarely/ Erica Douglass, "temporarily retired" after selling a successful business at age 26, writes thought-provoking blog entries challenging you to change your life and daring you to become more successful. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:01:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Lindsay http://www.erica.biz/2005/still-hanging-in-therebarely/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Jeff Lindsay Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:57:31 +0000 /?p=95#comment-318 I hope you had fun today, and I hope you have fun tomorrow at the party. I'll come by to make sure, okay? :P I hope you had fun today, and I hope you have fun tomorrow at the party. I’ll come by to make sure, okay? :P

]]> By: Jakiao http://www.erica.biz/2005/still-hanging-in-therebarely/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Jakiao Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:11:42 +0000 /?p=95#comment-319 Burnout, all to common and typical. For the longest time, you and my friends have been telling me that I need a vacation. Listen to yourself and realize that you need one too, and you need it sooner than later. In short time, I will be taking my vacation. Follow my lead? I realize that the vacation time offered is an absolutely needed time for each person. Without it, the stress builds and the mind-numbing feeling slowly starts to set it and take control. You have done way too much work to simply let yourself be destroyed by it. Take a step back, listen to the two before me, and <strong>relax</strong> sometime. Kickback and relax. Burnout, all to common and typical. For the longest time, you and my friends have been telling me that I need a vacation. Listen to yourself and realize that you need one too, and you need it sooner than later. In short time, I will be taking my vacation. Follow my lead?

I realize that the vacation time offered is an absolutely needed time for each person. Without it, the stress builds and the mind-numbing feeling slowly starts to set it and take control. You have done way too much work to simply let yourself be destroyed by it.

Take a step back, listen to the two before me, and relax sometime. Kickback and relax.

]]> By: Larry http://www.erica.biz/2005/still-hanging-in-therebarely/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Larry Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:18:28 +0000 /?p=95#comment-321 It sounds like right now you're living to work, instead of working to live. I can sympathise, I've always lived borderline in terms of cash, and then in my last job I was commuting, so add an extra 5 hours to the working day each day. Not fun. For me, the solution has been to get a place to live close enough to my office that I can walk in (and a new job, thanks to redundancy!), but it sounds like you just have too much work to cover by yourself. I hope you manage to find some solution to it, because constant work with no "me" time will just serve to make you more unhappy, and you don't need that :( It sounds like right now you’re living to work, instead of working to live. I can sympathise, I’ve always lived borderline in terms of cash, and then in my last job I was commuting, so add an extra 5 hours to the working day each day. Not fun.

For me, the solution has been to get a place to live close enough to my office that I can walk in (and a new job, thanks to redundancy!), but it sounds like you just have too much work to cover by yourself. I hope you manage to find some solution to it, because constant work with no “me” time will just serve to make you more unhappy, and you don’t need that :(

]]> By: Fortknox http://www.erica.biz/2005/still-hanging-in-therebarely/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Fortknox Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:33:08 +0000 /?p=95#comment-320 Welcome to adult life. We all don't have as much money as we'd like (I'm currently broke and have an AC to repair), and we just want to get away like we did back in high school, but it isn't going to happen. You should probably look at hiring someone full time, along with the intern to drop your hours to a much easier 8 a day and off on the weekends. Look into automating some processes and stuff. You are overworked and need to get some of that time taken away... Welcome to adult life. We all don’t have as much money as we’d like (I’m currently broke and have an AC to repair), and we just want to get away like we did back in high school, but it isn’t going to happen.

You should probably look at hiring someone full time, along with the intern to drop your hours to a much easier 8 a day and off on the weekends. Look into automating some processes and stuff. You are overworked and need to get some of that time taken away…

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