I have two jobs. Yes, not one but two jobs. During the day, I sit behind my computer and either write grants or plan fundraising events for an affordable housing nonprofit, and then at night I moonlight part-time as a designer and painter for a children's theatre. Both jobs are equally rewarding, because I feel like I am doing some good in this world, but both are equally tiring! I took on a second job to help pay-off student loans quicker, but with planning our wedding on top of two jobs, I feel like I am being pulled in a million directions.
Currently, I have two major projects at both of my jobs. I'm planning a fundraising event for my first job, and I've got a gigantic muraling project for the theatre. My time is being gobbled-up with an endless to-do list that keeps expanding instead of shrinking. My days and nights are consumed with work, and my weekends are consumed with either work or wedding errands. Hopefully, my work life will clam down in the middle of June when both projects end. But this rant isn't about working two jobs. What gets this me incredibly frustrated is when work creeps into my personal life, especially wedding planning. I highly value my personal time, and I try really hard to set boundaries between work and my personal life, but lately all my time has been consumed with work.
Since I am a theatre major and a portion of my job is planning fundraising events, I decided not to hire a wedding planner to save money because I could it all myself. Lately, I really wish I would have because I've had to put aside a lot of major wedding projects that need to get done asap, particularly invitation design and printing, to finish other work priorities during my personal time. I've delegated some wedding planning duties to Chris like planning our rehearsal dinner, music planning, and anything having to do with his attire, but to be brutally honest the actual wedding planning is not Chris' thing. Chris and I will only get married once (hopefully)! I just want to savor every moment of planning because it will be gone all too soon, and not have that time stolen way from me because of work. And besides, I have a lot of fun wedding planning!
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