I’ve been at my current job for about a year and a few months, and in that time I’ve had two promotions. I do love my job and I work with a lot of cool people, we can joke, talk shit to each other, but we also know when it’s time to work hard. I’m now in a managerial position at my job which changes a lot. I feel like people see me as the same person from when I started, even though now I have a lot more responsibility. There have been people there longer than I’ve been and now I’m their immediate go to which is crazy, but also it’s pretty cool I think.

In the time that I’ve been at my job I’ve maybe called off three to four times, which isn’t a lot but for me I always felt like I left them short handed when I did. I get my work ethic from my parents and, like most everyone else, I don’t love working, but I feel like I do work hard. I’ve always felt this way at any job that I’ve had.This one is different though because I see my co-workers more than I see my own family sometimes. These people that I’ve worked with have become my friends; before I had my new position. I mean yeah I see my non-work friends as often as I can, but because we have different schedules it’s harder to see them. I used to hang with my co-workers all the time before I got this new position, but now there’s this grey area which worries me. Like I said I love my job, and I don’t want to do anything to jeopardize it. I don’t have super crazy hours all the time, but my days off are during the middle of the week. My non-work friends have their own jobs and their own lives to live so my work friends tend to be the ones I can hangout with more often than not. Which brings us to the grey area. Cause on one hand I was friends with these people before I got the promotion, but on the other hand the relationship that I had with people changes. I have to be more careful about the jokes I make, I have to stick to the company guidelines and be in accordance with their policies when it comes to documentation and things of the such. I mean obviously right? But how do you have tough conversations with people at work you use to go out with. Thankfully I feel like I’ve been getting better at it, but still I feel like I’m always second guessing myself.

At my job I’m there till 1:30 am(sometimes later if we were busy) or about 10:30pm(also sometimes later) with no in between. On the days that I get off at 1:30(or later) I sleep way later(which is a whole different topic), so like what am I suppose to do. Well usually I drink, mostly beer cause that’s all I usually have, or read, or watch YouTube/tv. If you think about it most go my time comprises of going to work followed by a bit of debauchery then a few hours of sleep. That’s my work-life balance in nutshell. It sucks sometimes, but slowly and surely I’ll get the hang of it(I hope.)