March 3rd, 2023 – 1,619

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“Do you enjoy your job?”

Yep! Believe me, if I didn’t enjoy my job, I wouldn’t have decided to keep it when I went to university. Working at the college has quite a lot of intense challenges, but it’s rewarding, and they treat me well. In fact, I’m not sure I’d have felt comfortable going back to uni without the job to ground me. I feel very lucky, because I know all too well it’s quite rare for someone to enjoy their job at my age.

It’s kinda sad in a way because I’ve been feeling really burned out of late, and that’s affected my ability to enjoy my job and uni, but not through any fault of either. I needed to wall off more time for just me. Well, today I sort of did that. The issue is I’m on such little battery that I may have to do it all three weekend days. Not fun. But at least I recognise I need to do that, rather than trying to battle through it and make it worse in the process.

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.