Back in the day, I wished to work 9-5. I have never worked 9-5 and have always been an independent contractor or running my own business, selling stuff to customers. I rarely have a boss and even when I did, the leadership and management chain isn’t as complicated as 9-5.

What I am noticing from 9-5 that completely changed my life is certainly waking up time. I used to wake up whenever I want to whether it’s 3 AM or 10 AM. There was nothing in between. Today, just when I thought I would not have anything to do, I was call into a work meeting at 8:30 AM. While I was awake, I had different plans, I wanted to workout and walk outside. This is the luxury that I slowly realize will fade soon.

Another thing is that I typically don’t like on-call meetings. But these days, I am doing like intense 3-4 hours meeting with 40 minutes break. I guess this is what most office workers do, just constant long hours of meetings and revisions.

Then, from what I noticed, politics is also at play in the workplace. When you work alone, the only game you play is probably winning your customer but this time, I must deal with multiple entities, body, and people that have different wants and needs. It gets frustrating when in the morning they say A and the next 30 minutes, it all changed to B. Felt like I have thread very carefully and even sometimes I feel like I am the dumb ones.

Trying to write this post was me squeezing in a little bit of time to sharpen my creativity. I am sure I should be resting because I have worked for over 12 hours now. No wonder, people who work 9-5 can feel like work is their life and that’s all there is. I SEE IT NOW.

I no longer have the pleasure of just doing anything I wish. There’s work that awaits, revision awaits, some clearance awaits, a lot of thing awaits ha-ha.

But again, I am trying to have some boundaries which really help navigating my current busy life and schedule. The kind of being occupied now feels a lot different than before where this feels more intense and having some type of schedule will truly help and sometimes help you stay away from your phone, actually.

I guess it depends on your field but even the line of job I am doing right now doesn’t really offer much stability. Maybe it kind of does if people still build roads and bridges.

Well, I don’t know if I am deeply regretting my wishes but for now, I have yet seen the fruit of my labor. I don’t expect to see it in a few months, maybe in the next 3-4 months, who knows? Afterall, I and the 9 cats now, need to eat 😂

	𝘊𝘦𝘮𝘺 (𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘤) 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝖼𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗀𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗍 & 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘳, 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵, 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘱𝘰𝘱 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺; 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴.