There is a story here... My wonderful job in the recycling industry which keeps me going at breakneck speed for two or three after Christmas, only getting one day off at a time... Boxing Day to Saturday (work), get Sunday off, work New Year's Eve (10 hours), New Year's Day off, back to work on January 2nd, probably work until Saturday this week, when we normally get Saturday off
Back on topic, it makes my blood boil when I see people on the local Facebook photography group talk about photo outings they have done, when I get hardly any time off, when 99% of the working population gets the week off between Christmas and New Year's... And I will get my turn to take my photos, just at another time...

I could easily post a comment about how I worked that day instead of their outing, underneath that photo from their outing, feeling frustrated, and I've nine years of Christmas in this industry, in some ways I get used to it, but I still hate that aspect of my post-Christmas work schedule...
Yet I know that comparison is the worst thing anyone can do, and it's not polite to make a post that compares my life to someone else, I need to learn to live in my own reality, no matter how I feel about it...
That's all, it's still a struggle for me but I need to learn how to find more positive in my life and focus on the negative less...
Back on topic, it makes my blood boil when I see people on the local Facebook photography group talk about photo outings they have done, when I get hardly any time off, when 99% of the working population gets the week off between Christmas and New Year's... And I will get my turn to take my photos, just at another time...


I could easily post a comment about how I worked that day instead of their outing, underneath that photo from their outing, feeling frustrated, and I've nine years of Christmas in this industry, in some ways I get used to it, but I still hate that aspect of my post-Christmas work schedule...
Yet I know that comparison is the worst thing anyone can do, and it's not polite to make a post that compares my life to someone else, I need to learn to live in my own reality, no matter how I feel about it...
That's all, it's still a struggle for me but I need to learn how to find more positive in my life and focus on the negative less...
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