it takes time to bounce back
Lately I find it takes almost a whole day to recover from one night of dancing. This is frustrating, since I am pretty busy in the rest of my life. But no matter how much I tell myself I need to get stuff done, after a night at the club, I seem to have no motivation to do anything the next day. I wake up late and spent most of the afternoon just wandering around. If I'm lucky I can work at other stuff (dayjob stuff) for a few hours in the evening.
Anyone else feel like this? I wonder if I'm close to burning out again. :-\
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yes, this happens to me all the time at my home club, unfortunately.
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Is there something you're doing differently while at work, or anything in your self-care that has changed (exercise, eating, sleeping habits)?
I'm more wiped out by the 8-2 shift than the 4-10 shift. I swear it has something to do with how much smoke I'm breathing, and the way my sleep schedule is more disrupted.
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^^I think smoke and sleep do have a lot to do with it. I've had a minor cold for something like five weeks now and every time I work, I come home sicker.
Maybe it also has to do with being a relatively introverted person...the social interacition of dancing has always been somewhat draining, but moreso lately.
I just wish there was something I could do to instantly snap myself back to normal. I can't afford to rest as much as I feel like I need to.
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Sometimes I need more than one day to recover from dealing with so many assholes, you're not the only one.
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Somedays I feel like I could do it over and over again, others I feel like I need a whole fucking week. Like this week I'm going to work 7 nights in a row. I'm fucking crazy, but likelyhood that this will ACTUALLY happen is slim. REeeaAL slim
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I need recovery time too. I am an introvert, I get exhausted pretty easily by all the socialization, not to mention all the dancing on stage. On the other hand, sometimes if I have a really awesome night, I wake up the next day perky and ready to go....
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I found continuously forcing myself when I didn't want to actually made me MORE energized over time because I got used to it.
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Maybe it also has to do with being a relatively introverted person...the social interacition of dancing has always been somewhat draining, but moreso lately.
I just wish there was something I could do to instantly snap myself back to normal. I can't afford to rest as much as I feel like I need to.
That probaly has something to do with it. The constant hustling and interacting with people. I never, ever work two days in a row. It's just too draining, I feel ya. I'm the same way.
For example, I worked last night. Extra long shift, stayed till close.
I had so much to do today and did NONE of it. Laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, etc....nothing got done. I couldn't even muster up the energy to get off the couch and into the shower until 4 in the afternoon.
I can't afford the rest either. I need to be working 7 days a weeks right now as bad as the money has been around here, but I just can't do it.
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Sometimes I need more than one day to recover from dealing with so many assholes, you're not the only one.
And assholes they have been more than ever these past few months. I look back on my posts about the fucked up things that are said and done to me and wonder how the fuck I do it as much as I do.
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I can't seem to get up myself but the last couple of days I have been getting worse, I'll wake up at 4 and by the time 6 comes around back to sleep until 11 and back up until four in the morning. The days that I have to work I need about 2 red bulls just to give me a shot of energy. I'm hoping it will one day stop, and I can get back to normal whatever that is !
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I don't think its burn out, I think its just that this job ir really graining, emotioally and physically. When I was younger I could work and work, I had so much energy, I was like the energizer bunny! Now I'm getting older I really feel the strain. This weekend I worked 3 nights in a row, the first time I've done that in a long time, and I'm still exhaused by it 2 days later, yesterday in the office I couldn't get anything done, I was like a zomby! Make sure you keep up with your vitamins.
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Since returning to work I've had this problem. For me, it's the distance I live from work (about an hour and a half drive each way) and the shift length at my club (8hr), add to that my 2 hour prep time and I've already invested about 13 hours of my day to work alone!! On top of that, I have The Baby to care for during the day. So, on my days off, that leaves me wanting to go to bed super early, and it takes my first full day off of being groggy and barely there before I feel "all there" again. What this all means is that I feel you. Hardcore.
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I found continuously forcing myself when I didn't want to actually made me MORE energized over time because I got used to it.
Interesting. This works for me when I'm AT work...I find I usually do really well on nights when I didn't want to be there at all. Probably because I'm all business on those nights. But when I get home, I'm exhausted.
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I just make myself do it. My boyfriend is my inspiration. He gets up at 7 in the morning Monday - Friday to go work a thankless job (aside from his paycheck) with stuffy stupid bankers who make his life hell until 6, so I feel pretty silly if I wake up at 2 and can't curl my hair, put on my make up, and make it to work by 9 PM 4 days a week.
Just get ready and go to work, even if you have to drag ass the whole time and you have a bad feeling about it. When you get there your stripper-robot instincts will kick in and take over.
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Actually my concern is not really about getting myself to the club. I have plenty of discipline when it comes to working the days I schedule myself to work. As Viola is saying, I just get ready and go, no matter how I feel.
What I'm bitching about is how I can't seem to get anything done on my scheduled days off. Which are not really days off, as I have stuff to do for my dayjob, not to mention around the house.
I think I just need to get back into a healthy routine. Vitamins, good food, get back to the gym. It's been kind of a viscious cycle, cause I've been sick, so I'm tired and not doing a lot of healthy stuff I usually do, and that's making me sicker. Ugh. I'm just in kind of an unhealthy rut, I guess.
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^ I need to be healthier, too. I drank so much Red Bull last night that I woke up at 8 AM with heart palpitations! I need to just drink water, make work a work out, and get my endurance back. I'm so out of shape and I'm dragging ass at work, and a zombie in my regular life.
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i really get physically exausted after working weekend shifts. weeknights dont bother me but sundays im hobbling around like an old woman.
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What I'm bitching about is how I can't seem to get anything done on my scheduled days off. Which are not really days off, as I have stuff to do for my dayjob, not to mention around the house.
I think I just need to get back into a healthy routine. Vitamins, good food, get back to the gym. It's been kind of a viscious cycle, cause I've been sick, so I'm tired and not doing a lot of healthy stuff I usually do, and that's making me sicker. Ugh. I'm just in kind of an unhealthy rut, I guess.
This has been my problem for the past 3-4 weeks. I've gone to the gym twice. I ran out of 5-HTP. I stopped drinking a ton of water, down to even less than one bottle per day. My sister was visiting and I went out of town, resulting in a schedule change at work 2 weeks in a row. All of these factors combined have taken a toll on me mentally and physically. I'm so glad that things are going back to normal this week...
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^^Me, too. I stopped personal training at the end of April and haven't done anything more active than ride my bike around and walk to the store. My boyfriend's been doing a lot of the cooking, too, which is delicious but tends toward the meat-and-potatoey side of things. Lots of coffee, too, and cigarettes at the club. I could definitely stand to make improvements. Time to set some goals...
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