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    The pressure from school is getting to me, I am really starting to melt. Like going to bed feeling anxious, waking up feeling anxious...I could go on and on but the point of this is not to rant.

    I am totally ineffective at work because, well, I can't check my real life at the door. I think I need a little relief, and I could use the free time to come back to Earth and work out and relax a little.

    I hate, hate, hate to use my savings for this...but I guess that is the whole point of having savings, right? It will just be a couple of months, and then I have a month off of school to work and to figure out where to go from there.

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    Whoops, I fucked up my title. Oh that is so appropriate right now.
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    I wish I had a savings so I could do the same

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    If your starting to feel anxious and noticing diminishing returns at work...take time off now, while you can still recover. I learned the hard way, and tried to keep pushing...and I ruined my stripping career forever, it seems.

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    It seems like somebody feels exactly as I do !!!

    I had a very difficult exam 3 wks ago and should be taking 2 ACCA papers in Dec but it seems like I won't be successful in passing them as there's so much to go through and now I have so little time left !

    I was thinking about not working at all but then Dec should be the best stripping season here in Uk and I was planning to work as much as possible until the end of the year and then take it easy...

    When I have an important assignment/exam comming up, I have to take some time off my work, otherwise I wouldn't be able to revise properly. I can't concentrate after I'd worked the night before !!! I'd read the books but my brain wouldn't work properly, it always drives me mad as I'm normally quite bright


    Does anybody have any good advice about how to handle school and work successfully ???

    x

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    Yes sunnie... school and stripping don't always go together. I've never been able to be 100% effective at both at the same time.

    Take a little break, if you get the itch to work some more later on, you can cut back on the number of days that you dance. Take care of yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SydneyII View Post
    Does anybody have any good advice about how to handle school and work successfully ???
    I think the general consensus is to place the greater emphasis on schoolwork. Dancing is great and it can be wonderful supplemental income but school should always come first. Depending on the number of days you're in school (and your exam schedule) you probably shouldn't work more than 3 days out of the week. When I was in school I did 2 per week, when I had exams I worked only one day a week.

    Sometimes it was stressful and I wanted to be working on my assignments rather than talking some slime ball into a sale. Honestly... when it became crunch time and I had a major paper to write and I had a few finals to study for I would stop working all together.

    I know some gals can do both (kicking ass in the club and in school) but I had to focus on one thing at a time.

    Assess yourself. See if you can work 'X' days out of the week and still do great in your classes. Maybe you want to take time off in December and really study for your exam. Yeah, you'll miss a busy season but it's better to get an awesome grade and be proud of yourself. The busy season will come again...
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    Default Re: I think I am wanna take time off

    You may find you don't need as much time off as you think. Even a week or two can make me feel a million times better and ready to hustle my ass off. Besides, won't you get several weeks off from school in December/January? Make a committment to work extra hard in your time off and replenish your savings.

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    Definately take the time off. Like Kaylinn said - you are at the beginning stages of burn out and if you keep pushing youll start hating the job.

    This is what you have a savings for... use it - within a few weeks youll start missing work - and thats when you go back...

    Concentrate on school.

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    Update:

    So I told my manager what was going on with school, and he agreed to let me work one night a week until the semester ends. Which is awesome and it is actually kind of healthy for me to drag myself out of my house for 7 hours a week to work, cause when I am working hard at school I do it obsessively. I spent 5 days straight studying last week for exams, like 16 hour days of nonstop no bullshit studying...and then i had so much anxiety about exams that I blanked during one and fucking blew it really bad and got a 67.5%. That was not good!

    So, of course, after talking to my manager I was so happy and relieved that I had a great night at work. And more than just the money, I feel like it was a really encouraging sign to myself that I am taking the right steps to getting a handle on things.

    I am really glad that I will have time to focus on my schoolwork, and make a little money, even if I have to dip into savings, what the fuck ever.

    Thanks girls!
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    ^^^ Awesome! I love it when managers do their job and keep their girls at their best.

    I'm going on vacation starting this thursday.. 4 weeks without work, only school! It'll be so nice to actually do all the assigned reading instead of skimming and only reading the bare minimum.

    For me, this job is not possible to do more than 4 or 5 months in a row without a break of at least 3 or 4 weeks. My sanity won't allow for it..

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