Time management

Ink,

I feel your pain, i used to have the ultimate schedule. I worked 10 hours a day 4 days a week. This gave me friday, saturday, and sunday off.

Then i put in for an interview to run the department i helped to form, got the job a lot more responsibility, a little more money but now i work 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Only the Hours end up being 10+ per day, and i cant get away from my phone over the weekends dealing w work. Mine is a working / teaching shop environment. I am also required to teach aircraft sheetmetal structures repair, so i am working on a course syllabus, and a weekly progress form that i will have to turn in to the different supervisors of the trainees every week marking their progress aptitude.

My wife works nights on the weekends as a drug rehab nurse. So i am watching the kids ages 8,6, and 21months old. I have very little time for anything, and after the stress of dealing with the kids over the weekends, i just take a bath or shower n go to bed.

My wife is obsessive about the house which is great, but the kids constantly make mess after mess, when she is at work i try to keep it picked up, and have to constantly tell em to clean up. After dealing with that **** all weekend, i dont even want to go in my shop and even mess with my projects. Could be a bit of depression.

I am thinking of stepping down as shop crewchief but want to give it at least until fall. I enjoyed having one day off during the week to do my running around for stuff i need, and spending mornings w my little boy going out for breakfast. The money isnt that much of a step up, its just good to have on a resume'.

As a matter of fact i have to now take vacation time to get **** done around the house if i want to get it done. It shouldent be that way. I know in a couple years my boy will be in school, and things will ease up a bit. But right now its rough.

I wish i had some advice to offer you. I am pretty organized at work, but i also have a good group of people who work for me. On the weekends it seems like a different story, like a losing battle. :(