So, recently took on a new job. An incredibly different job to what I've done in my entire working life. It's been a major change involving managing my own diary, night meetings, lots of staying in hotels for long periods of time etc.
I left home to start work at 5am today. Got home at 10pm. I look back at my previous couple of months in my new role and see a similar pattern.
It's been a pretty stressful time in my life recently, what with the split added on top of the job as well as finding a place to live and I look in the mirror and am starting to see it in my face. You know when you are on the receiving end of "you look knackered" that secretly they're saying..."you look like crap". The bags, the extra lines...I have yet to find any makeup company that manages to hide that much for a 16 hour shift where the only time to reapply it is on the M25 doing 100 miles an hour to make it in time for the next meeting.
And why is it...anyone who works at night will understand..that when you arrive home, you have this burst of energy that just will not allow you to fall into bed and pass out...no, you end up actually going to your rest at about 2am!
I sit here in the knowledge that it all kicks off again in just a few hours and I have a to-do list that will keep me working into the early hours of tomorrow morning.
I've decided to add to that list...call boss..and ask when do I sleep sir????
You have to have some balance with the work hours - you'll only last so long before you go nuts. I know - I did 2 years of 20 hour days before I finally told my boss what a c*%t I thought he was and quit.
good luck