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Oh Mr I it doesn’t sound good..NO ...not really...
Let's see.. where to start.
1. Sick of waking up with boxes and shit everywhere after recently moving. I just want this place sorted, yet everytime I start something, something else fucks up and takes twice as long. Tonight for example 3 hours trying to fix up a display cabinet where the bottom had rotted.
2. As a result of #2 and trying to do as much as I can, I'm now on my 6th consecutive day of waking up around 10am, and getting to bed at 5am with my head still ticking over. As such I'm mentally exhausted and beaten and belted up.
3. Add to this major financial stress because I've been out of work 6 months and living of my payout.
3a. An unintended move has financially crippled us to the point I need to enact my income protection.
4. Except that said income protection requires you to be actively seeking work, and they cut your pay if you refuse to attend interviews or don't apply for jobs.
5. I can seek work but my skills are largely outdated, meaning my preferred $60k salary will be harder to achieve, as I need time to study and reskill.
6. Coming into christmas jobs are less and less.
7. Still seeing a clinical psych after my previous employer really mind fucked me with workplace harassment/bullying which resulted in a minor mental breakdown.
So yeah ... complete fucking mess at the moment though I'm trying to stay positive. Trying to dig myself out of this hole I'm in but it's proving hard. Financial stress isn't helping things at all.
Honestly I think at first you gotta get your routine sorted out..Going to bed late and waking up late is no good..it gets you in a downward rut..Get to bed by 10-11 pm..If you find you can’t go to sleep..still set that alarm for 6 am and get up..go for a walk..have a healthy breakfast..(you’ll sleep eventually..trust me) and get ready to start your current job..which is..finding another job..whether that be searching online..or on foot..you have to get yourself ‘out there’....stop for morning tea..lunch..afternoon tea..breaks.. Its important that from Monday to Friday..8-4..you gotta follow that routine..it helps you focus..and gives you a purpose..
And just a little advice..sometimes a lower paid job..or a job that requires skills that are less than what you have..is not always a negative thing..sometimes it’s a foot in the door..a way in..to get a more ‘suitable’ position that takes full advantage of your skill set..
Don’t let it get you down Mr I..and the best way to stop that..is to sit back and look at it from a different perspective.. Good luck..