I am doing alright. It's been quite a while since I made the last entry of my blog.
I haven't mentioned this yet in this blog but now I've got a part-time job, which
is working at a sushi bar in a shopping centre in town!
I started working in the last week of January. In the beginning I was working 4 days a week, ７-8.5 hours a day. I thought I would be OK with this work schedule but after a week I found myself struggling with it. You know, I hadn't worked almost 2 years, so at first I thought that my body was just not used to the new routine. But things get a bit different when you suffer from insomnia, don't they? Yes, you are right, I have been struggling with sleeping at night. It was really hard in the first three weeks. I couldn't get to sleep at all especially when it was the night before working day. I must have been feeling some strong pressure or something about the work. Because my roster was pretty tricky, which had 8:30-17:00(Monday), 6:30-14:30(Tuesday), 13:00-8:30(Thursday) and 8:30-15:30(Saturday) and on top of that, my roster changed every week so it was no wonder that I had difficulty in adjusting myself to this new way of living. I thought I would be fine but obviously I was kidding myself.
I wanted to start working mostly because I wanted to earn money. I had been using my savings and as you can guess it had become less and less. So I really needed to make money. And also there was another reason for it, which was that Gori was going to attend a course in Brisbane to become a gas-fitter and the course was to start on the 16th of February. The course is on every other week for 8 months. So actual school time is 4 weeks. This week is the second week of school time and Gori went down to Brisbane on Sunday and coming back on Saturday.
Anyway I wanted to start working because I thought I would be very bored doing nothing without Gori for a week. You know A week alone is a bit too long, we've got our lovely pets but still .. you know.. Before I start working I thought I would get used to the job before Gori's school started but it didn't turn out like that. I have to admit that there was one time when I regretted my decision because I struggled .. really struggled without him. I felt very fragile so I even had to cheer myself up in mind in order to keep myself together and get through it.
Now things are much better. I talked the owner of sushi bar, who is Japanese and a very thoughtful man and he was kind enough to arrange my roster and give more suitable one to me. Now I work three days a week, 5-6 hours a day, with no very early shift. It's been like this for two weeks and I feel much better and relaxed.
Before I was like.. pushed too hard by job and sweated a lot
but now I am confident that I can handle it and I even enjoy it.
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