April 24, 2013
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working long hours
When you date/intend to marry/or married to a man who’s very much career driven, you better hope that he doesn’t work for one of those “big 4 firms” in his field of whatever it is that he does.
Undoubtly they will do the long arduous hours that come with the work. It takes a LONG time to get used to and a lot of patience.
For example:
Tonight Mr_54632 said he’d be leaving work at 6.30pm- which is fine. Then I got a text to say that he’d be home by 8pm. 8pm came around and he was still at work.
You can ONLY delay making dinner for so long before you become hungry and become extremely irrational.
It is now 10.44pm and Mr_54632 is STILL at work.
Let’s not forget that tomorrow is a public holiday…
and yes, they work public holidays and weekends too.
And if they’re in a field where extra “studying” is needed because 3-4 years of uni just isn’t enough then be prepared to be tortured with their grumpy moods when assignments/study time/exams are in and they’re already slaving away 15hours a day in the office.
Mr_54632 is currently doing his masters and has another 1.5 to 2 years to go.. and after that there’s even MORE accreditation to go.
Be prepared to feel like you’re #2 or #3 in their list of priorities in life. Mr_54632 tells me that I’m his #1 priority- it doesn’t feel that way when I’m eating alone or he doesn’t turn up to whatever event because of work. Then he reminds me “I do this for US, for our future”… It better be a fantastic friggen future because sometimes I even question if all the hard work is really worth all this.
People like Mr_54632 actually never relax, their minds are always with work… case in point: Last year, we went away for a month in Vietnam, can you believe that he brought his work laptop along and did work whilst we were away. I almost threw his laptop out the hotel window before I realized without it, I couldn’t facebook.
I even have to deal with his mutterings in his sleep. Sometimes he wakes me up whilst he sleep talks about work. -_-”
I have to keep reminding myself that this is who he is, I cannot change that, he was working there before I knew him, he’d probably still be working there even if I left him…(which I wont)…
at least the one thing I can look forward to is the therapy sessions that he can afford because he’s driven me insane
