Christmas time in the recycling industry = lots of hours!
This year at work they have posted a "projected" schedule for the month and into early January... This week coming up is scheduled as a six day work week (working the 14th)... Next week another six day work week (working the 21st)... Christmas week we will get Christmas Day off of course on the Wednesday, but from the 26th when most of Canada will get Boxing Day off, I'm back to work until Saturday, one day weekend again...
And the worst for me, at this point they plan to have us work on New Year's Day! Not that I'm a party person, but I like going to New Year's outside for my photography
I have never seen them schedule Saturday shifts before Christmas, it will likely (possibly) be several weeks with few days off, exhausting! I'm not looking forward to it, not sure how I'll power through it, although we do get overtime pay and holiday pay and such for those extra days
And all these hours during the dark days of winter with short days, lots of those shifts I won't see any daylight or very little daylight, plus always the possibility of some very cold days and/or major snow
I'm also dreading how little photography I'm likely to do in this stretch, as selfish as that may sound... And wondering/concerned how to feed my Instagram account if I'm working so much... Why am I always thinking that? I have always had a fear that if I miss posts for too long that people will forget that I exist (perhaps a slight exaggeration), not that my number of followers is super huge in the first place...
Yet I also heard a talk recently from a pro photographer who also works lots with social media, he said that people shouldn't worry about it, that how everyone works off the feeds it really shouldn't happen, certainly in the long term...
If we do work that six day work week this week, I went out this afternoon (on a sunny winter day) to soak in the sun a little and take a few photos, it's how I relax, something I won't get much chance to do...
Hopefully I survive this, alright one photo from today, something a little different:
This year at work they have posted a "projected" schedule for the month and into early January... This week coming up is scheduled as a six day work week (working the 14th)... Next week another six day work week (working the 21st)... Christmas week we will get Christmas Day off of course on the Wednesday, but from the 26th when most of Canada will get Boxing Day off, I'm back to work until Saturday, one day weekend again...
And the worst for me, at this point they plan to have us work on New Year's Day! Not that I'm a party person, but I like going to New Year's outside for my photography
I have never seen them schedule Saturday shifts before Christmas, it will likely (possibly) be several weeks with few days off, exhausting! I'm not looking forward to it, not sure how I'll power through it, although we do get overtime pay and holiday pay and such for those extra days
And all these hours during the dark days of winter with short days, lots of those shifts I won't see any daylight or very little daylight, plus always the possibility of some very cold days and/or major snow
I'm also dreading how little photography I'm likely to do in this stretch, as selfish as that may sound... And wondering/concerned how to feed my Instagram account if I'm working so much... Why am I always thinking that? I have always had a fear that if I miss posts for too long that people will forget that I exist (perhaps a slight exaggeration), not that my number of followers is super huge in the first place...
Yet I also heard a talk recently from a pro photographer who also works lots with social media, he said that people shouldn't worry about it, that how everyone works off the feeds it really shouldn't happen, certainly in the long term...
If we do work that six day work week this week, I went out this afternoon (on a sunny winter day) to soak in the sun a little and take a few photos, it's how I relax, something I won't get much chance to do...
Hopefully I survive this, alright one photo from today, something a little different: