I give so much of myself away every day that there is nothing left for me. Less then nothing. Every day I look into the mirror after working all my shifts and see less and less.
Till one day I won’t even be there. Again.
Maybe half ass it a little bit
If they’re not compensating you for giving 150% of your energy, then don’t give them 150% of your energy.
Like, tell them you need to catch a breath, take a “smoke break” (even if you don’t smoke, mime vape a lil ink pen in the smoking section). Rehydrate more, piss more. Say you’re dizzy. Come up with something.
For me, it helps to have some time before work where you can get stuff done. Of course you need to go to bed earlier, which is the tricky part. So shifting part of the free time to the morning hours.
It’s hard for me to do that too. I found setting regular reminders for it on my phone helped, at least once I get over that initial hump of forming a pattern, then it just becomes a simple “oh. Today’s my day to run laundry”. Of course, if I break that habit it becomes hard again, but it does help a lot. But also I’m no psychologist, so for all I know it could be a case by case basis
