TOO MUCH WORK.

Ness

Ness

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I haven't been around much the past few days because grades are due tomorrow and that always means a big pile of work for teachers. This past quarter has been particularly bad because I had to deal with a lot of absences and/or makeup work. All of this adds up to an unfortunate amount of stress and not a lot of time to enjoy the things I enjoy.

Do any of you have tough deadlines at work that suck the joy out of your life?
 
Deadlines are the bane of my existence. Especially when you have weeks and weeks of nothing, and then three assignments are all clumped together. :rage:

The current one is a group presentation we have for the 19th of April, it's coming along quite nicely, but one member of the group hasn't been to any meetings and won't respond to anyone when they attempt to contact. It's maddening, do we carry on without them? Do we wait for them to return and then incorporate them into the work we've already done? Do we just shun them completely? :rage: If we had more time, this wouldn't be a problem, but we've got a week left and we need to have it word perfect by then.
 
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I haven't been around much the past few days because grades are due tomorrow and that always means a big pile of work for teachers. This past quarter has been particularly bad because I had to deal with a lot of absences and/or makeup work. All of this adds up to an unfortunate amount of stress and not a lot of time to enjoy the things I enjoy.

Do any of you have tough deadlines at work that suck the joy out of your life?
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I don't know how it works for you but at the school I teach at we are given essentially 4 days from the final exam to get the course grades in the system. The way I run my class my final exam includes 2 parts- an inclass & a take home portion. I wouldn't give a take home but the students love it.

It takes forever to grade and then got to weight all the parts, before turning them in and you are right- it's all at once and it annoys the hell out of me.
 
I don't have to worry about this sort of thing luckily.

All my jobs have always been office sort of jobs that involve a lot of paperwork but I never ever take it home with me because it's just impossible to do anything without access to my office.

Plus, even if I could I wouldn't. I get paid to be at work by the hour and so I don't intend to do any more than that. I was on a salary for a while and I hated it. Too much was expected of me and it really did interupt my home life because I wasn't getting home until 7pm after starting at 7:30am.

Now it's just 8am-4pm Monday to Friday and I can enjoy my life and actually schedule things after work knowing I won't get held back.

Less money but so much stress has been lifted off my shoulders. It was totally worth it.
 
The last major deadline I had was last Friday when the final drafts of coursework had to be handed in for both my English courses - Language and Literature. The former was certainly the more time-consuming of the two especially as I had to collect some satisfactory primary data from a nearby primary school to compile a transcript and analyse the retrieved data thoroughly to write a 2,500 word investigation piece on children's language. Not to mention a media text that followed (I did draft one in time, but my tutor was less than satisfied with it and it has to go back to the drawing board). Literature was certainly a battle for me and I was often alone to compose it and research for it myself as my tutor was so preoccupied with others in the class and those taking exam resits. To pile on top of that were the sudden waves of assignments that my History and Politics tutors gave to us in response to departmental concerns that teachers were becoming too lax.

My final two weeks running up to the Easter break were just awful. It was perhaps the first time in a while that I had to be inactive for a short period of time to get everything done. The deadline was definitely the 8th and it could not be extended, so it was a rather painful final push to get everything done - and to the highest level of quality I could manage. >.>
 
I used to have that when I was still working for my 'A' level Project Work grades.

My group was a unusually slow one. Is it the efficiency? Or the supervising tutor's folly?

I'll probably never know, nor want to know. In any case, we always had deadlines imposed by our tutors, but we never managed to meet them, because we couldn't. On one hand, we had piling homework, and on the other hand, we had a hell lot of super unproductive group meetings.

We could spend one whole day discussing. And I tell you. It's literally one whole day. From morning, say, 10am, to as late as 1am - 2am or worse being the extreme case.

That's how 'efficient' we were. Inefficient? I blame too much work.

... Not that I care now, really. I received an 'A' grade for the subject, so I can't be bothered any more about that piece of bullshit.
 
When I was student teaching, it was overwhelming--literally (this is at the middle school.) We had half the time to do it (5 weeks), a second teacher work sample, lesson planning for the entire 5 weeks, lesson revision/adjustments--taking in all the factors--and the actual teaching of class.

Let's just say it was so much stress that it was the catalyst for my anxiety issues. xD Buuuuut c'est la vie. You live you learn and you work some more.
 
fucking month end is a nightmare, i start to get cold sweats if my invoicing is piling up and it needs to be out, i just dont have the time sometimes :rage:

Im hoping the next few weeks will be quiet with the abundance of bank hols coming up so i can get straight
 
Ughh, I have a bunch of paperwork and things to get settle that I can't do right now because it's the weekend. Working to get things to the school I hope to be attending this summer, and all is much harder than it was at my last school.

They want all this weird stuff and I keep having to ask them what half of it is. Anyway, I'll work it out but it's a lot of stress, and I don't have very much time, so it being the weekend sort of sucks. Well, it really sucks. A lot.
 
Because my job is dependent on government personnel, we can have very random, strict deadlines from time to time. Most of my work doesn't have a definite deadline, but if something is a serious need, all of a sudden they needed it yesterday. :hmph: And in our code, the people just tend to be assholes, so it tends to become uneasy. Thankfully, this doesn't happen all that much. :lew:
 
Whilst not a deadline as such, I have a series of rather nasty looking exams coming up at the beginning on Summer term a week from today. Because of this I'm going to be spending most of my time this week with my head stuck in a book or on the computer looking for articles, cramming as much stuff as I possibly can. Almost certainly won't be able to do much else until those are out of the way.
 
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