Finding A Balance Between Work n' Life
Growing up as a kid, I never imagined that one day, I would one day be thinking of how balance my work and my life. I didn't get everything I wanted as a kid, but I had everything I needed. I had the love, the care, and above all, there is a high probability that if I puct on a sad face, I will get what I wanted.
Combining work and social life is a whole lot of work to do. I remember when I was still in school. I didn't have plenty responsibilities back then. All I did was read, hustle and sleep. No body was disturbing me for anything, so, I had a lot of time.
I and my course mates were sent to federal medical center umuahia for clinical experience. As student nurses, we do this every semester. We go to hospitals and learn practicals from them for 2 weeks up to 2 months. So, I was always excited to go for clinical experience because I get to work.
My first ward posting in Federal Medical Center, Umuahia was at the emergency unit. Many people complained of the unit, but I saw it as an opportunity to work, get connections, and learn a lot from my seniors. I was like a workaholic. I totally forgot about my own life and spent every single day in the hospital. Even when I'm off duty, I would volunteer to go to the hospital and work.
Funny enough, nobody broke my heart, so, I was not using the too much work as an excuse to run away from depression. I just loved helping patients, and doing other nursing abracadabra to ensure that my patients get better. I even join the core medical team to assess patients treatment regimen and see if they are responding to treatment in a positive way. I actually love nursing with all my heart.
Gradually, I began to lose my social life without even knowing it, I was not bothered. I'm the type of person that don't really care about my social life, so, I don't let people bother me. Infact, Its too weird to the extent that I do dodge people at times. However, when I'm with my patients, things change. I chat, I laugh, I make them happy and distract them totally from their problems.
Back then, it was actually very difficult for me to maintain my life and my work together. I literally sacrificed my life just to satisfy my patients needs. Even when I came back from the ward posting, I felt like going back. I gradually lost some friends, but I didn't feel it because I had my patients.
Fast forward to after I graduated, I still maintained the same perspective of sacrificing my personal life to ensure that my work life is top notch. I worked in many places. When I got a job with the place I'm currently working at, I still have the same mindset of working till my bones give out.
My colleagues saw this and began to use this to their advantage. I covered a lot of shifts. Lol. Funny enough, I loved it. I do work for 72 hours straight with little naps in-between and not feel stressed. Thankfully, I've got the power of youth, so, my body was running, even though it was running on fumes.
I remember one day my patient hooked me up with her daughter because of the amount of care I showed her. She even called me to know if I started talking to her daughter yet. I did not go ahead with it because I didn't want to take advantage of the patient, and also, for now, my mind is far from being in a relationship or even marriage. I just want to play the game of stacking even though I ought to share.
When I realized that my colleagues are actually using me because of my love for the profession, I gradually began to reduce the rate at which I work.i began to realize that I actually need to put a balance between my work and my life. So, that's what I did.
I don't know how I managed to do it, but I reduced how I worked and began to take care of my self. Yes, I have the power of youth, but then, too much stress can kill a youth. Though my colleagues complained of this, I had to change. I've not completed change though. I have not fully understood how to properly balance work and life but I'm gradually doing it. I'm gradually finding what works for me. I'm successful to a very good extent. .
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Thankfully, you were able to retreat... Humans are not even worth it cos they would take you for granted which they did actually
True. They will always look for any way possible to take advantage of anything
I've worked as a nurse assistant and I understand when you say for a time you been a workaholic, working in the health field it's something that involves you a lot physically and mentally and it's not easy balance the life sometimes especially if you deal with stress and depression.
Generally, working as a medic is not easy. The stress is plenty. Funny thing is that, even with this amount of stress, patient relative will still bad mouth them