I can speak from experience: some stress is good. It keeps you sharp. It shows you still care about your job. It means your job isn't boring/monotonous. It's when stress takes over your life that you need to look for another job. When I had my old job, none of my friends wanted to be around me. I was that bitchy. Even my husband (fiance at the time) was sick of how I treated him and everyone else. I threw up before I went to work every day. (Imagine all the people who asked me if I were pregnant because of that) The worst part was, since I had only been out of college for 3 years, I thought it was normal! I totally thought it was part of "growing up". I had seen my father work at a job he hated so he could support us, and thought I should count my blessings that I made good money and had stability. Everyone talks about hating their job, right? Hah.
Athena, if it'll take you a year and half to get citizenship, start going to school/attending training now! Or at least take some fun classes. People don't play enough these days, especially with a career. Do you know what you want to do? If not, then try a bunch of different things. Volunteer...
I've done social services, medical records, and now fundraising (grantwriting, events, marketing, etc.) and even though I have an absolutely amazing boss, I'm bored. I don't wake up excited to go to work. And if it's something I spend a large chunk of my time doing, I want to look forward to going to work. That's why I'm picking teaching. I love kids (even if I don't want any) and I think introducing them to reading and math sounds like so much fun! And all the art projects, etc... I can't wait to get started.
Wow, this ended up longer than I thought.
