I QUIT! (for Tuesday mornings)

Well, I've decided that working 14 hours a week is a bit too much when also going to school 17 hours a week. I was also spending almost 4 hours a week just traveling back and forth between school and work and home. I made the trip either to school or to work 11 times. I always leave home about 20 minutes before school or work starts. That doesn't include time to get home again, but I don't have to plan for as much time there since if I'm a bit late getting home it doesn't matter and classes often get out a few minutes early. I also spend at least 20 minutes a day getting ready to go to school/work. So that's another almost 2 hours. All of that and it doesn't even include the time I need to do homework! I also have cooking, shopping, cleaning, eating and all of the normal things people have to do. I admit to being curious how normal people manage to work 40 hours a week without going insane. It must be the lack of homework. I've got to admit though, working 8-5 really KILLS your day.

Anyways, the whole point of this is that I no longer plan to work on Tuesday mornings. It'll give me 2 less hours of pay, but close to 3 more hours of free time when you take out the trip to work and home again and the extra preparation time and time to get back into doing schoolwork. And since if I work 9-11 I don't get any homework done between 11:15 when I get home and 12:10 when I leave for class... I probably acquire an extra half hour or something in there too. Maybe this will make me less stressed?

I really need to learn to get used to stress though since I'm sure I'll have more in the fall if I get into the masters program. I'll then be doing Swedish classes in the evening if I can and working whenever else I have free time. I'm sure I can get my nice 20 sek an hour job back if I really want to abuse myself in that way. Sometimes I could make close to 30 sek/hour if I worked Friday nights and got lots of tips (10 hour shift). Only real benefit to that type of job is that I can get the hours I want (as long as they are open) and they feed me. A 5 hour lunch shift usually results in 100 SEK and 40 SEK of lunch and all the chips/fruit/sodas I can consume while working. Just requires me to not want to do anything from 11-4 or whatever the hours were. Job also doesn't require that I speak Swedish very well. ;) En lunch was about all that was required.