Which days do you do laundry, grocery shop, cleaning, other life necessities? Any good planners or LPT YouTube channels for a less chaotic life?
Which days do you do laundry, grocery shop, cleaning, other life necessities? Any good planners or LPT YouTube channels for a less chaotic life?
Monday: Get kids ready for school and drop them off. Travel 45-60 minutes to work, work 9+ hours and travel back. Eat dinner and help clean up (wife cooked after she got home from work). Get kids ready for bed. Work another 3-4 hours. Sleep.
T-W: Leave for work an hour early. Work 9+ hours. Get home and help make dinner for the family if not yet made, help clean up, get kids ready for bed, work another 3-4 hours, sleep.
Thursday: Get kids ready and drop them off at school. Work from home for the day. Help make dinner. Help clean up. Get kids ready for bed. Work some more, sleep.
Friday: Get kids ready and drop them off. Travel to work and work 9+ hours. Travel home. Either get ready to go out with the wife or, if we’re staying in eat dinner and help clean up. If staying in, spend some time with the fam before sleep.
Saturday: Both wife and I are off work so we run errands, take the kids to do something fun, visit family, home projects, etc… Saturdays are busy.
Sunday: Wife is working, spend most of the day working on home projects (yard work, laundry, cleaning). Make dinner, get kids ready for bed, sleep.
Do it all over again.
Wife works in retail so does a lot of shopping for household needs and groceries throughout the week. She also cleans the house and works on home projects on her days off if she’s not running errands.
Are you happy?
A simple yet loaded question. Overall I think I am. I spend a lot of time working and commuting but I’m in the growing years of my career and working hard to prove myself. The late night work is usually things I enjoy doing but don’t have time for during the day and I’d otherwise be sitting in front the TV so I might as well make money.
I make time for family as well. For example leaving early for date night every now and then, taking days off for family events, going on family vacations. It’s important to have balance.
If I were to pick an area of my life that I’m unhappy with, it would be friendships and hobbies but I think most of that is due to undiagnosed mental issues. I don’t make connections easily so friends have always been hard. I have one good friend that I’ve known for almost my whole life, every one else is an acquaintance. The only hobby I have is the same thing I do for work. I don’t really enjoy or get excited about anything else.