Tagheavy workload, rat race

Life has been busy lately at work. Our company business has been slow lately. Business is not picking up and a lot of staff have resigned and left the company. There is no replacement for those that have left. So those that are still loyal to the company have to bear more work load. Well that’s life unless one can get out of the rat race

Tagblogging challenges, blogs, part time blogger

It is not easy being a part time blogger especially if you are new to blogging.

I have gone through it and realised that it is not as easy as I thought. Time management is crucial because as a part timer, you don’t have the luxury to be in front of your computer the whole day. You have to juggle between your full time job and blogging. Your full time job will demand at least 12 hours of your time including time spent travelling to and fro work. By the time you reach home you may be too tired to sit down in front of your computer and if you can find time to do so, you may not have any idea of what topic to write about. This maybe worse if you are a family man with young children to look after.

My day starts at 6.30am in the morning when my little 1 year old boy wakes up. Then it is getting ready to go to work and to reach the office by 9.00am. Leaving office at 6.00pm, reaching home after dinner and picking up my children at 8.45pm. By the time getting the children to settle down to bed, it is already 10.30pm. By that time I am too tired to even switch on my computer. I have tried to work on my blog after the children have gone to bed and work late into the night but it has affected my health due to lack of sleep.

Guess I have to learn time management if I want to succeed in this blogging business. If you are blogging part time and facing the similar challenges or otherwise, do feel free to drop in a comment or two.

Taghospitalised, long break, sick

It has been a long time since my last post. It was tough year end for me. I ended the year end busy with my work, working over the weekenes too as my colleague cleared her leave for the year 2007. As a result, I fell sick and was hospitalised for a week. What a way to spend my new year celebration. I celebrated 1st January 2008 alone in the hospital. (On a lighter note, not that bad as pretty nurses took turn to visit me and food was delivered right to my bed :-))

Since then, it was a long road to recovery and a lot more work piling up in the office waiting for me to attend to after a long while away from office. I was even more busy than before I was hospitalised. What a beginning to a new year. Hope things will be better soon.