See, I dunno, I think it would depend on the job. A lot of what is overwhelming you seems to be the sheer amount of different things you have to do, even if, individually, they wouldn't take much time, they do combined, or they do because they are new things that you haven't done before (like filling in insanely huge government forms).
Jobs in themselves are sucky, stressful time-stealers. But they are also predictable, they are things you become better at through routine, and they are things that have a set amount of time in which you have to perform them and then, (barring certain types of job like teaching or more managerial stuff), you go home and you forget about it.
I'm not saying it'll definitely work that way, because fuck it, my job stresses me out sometimes and I only work three days a week. But since I know a large part of your issues regarding stress is scheduling, is finding the time to get everything done (and this is something I empathise with), a job is basically a way of putting all your Adult Shit into one basket of "this gets me money" and the amount of time you spend at it is predetermined.
So maybe that's something to consider when looking for jobs. Don't go for a job where you're likely to be expected to do a lot of unexpected overtime, etc. That certainly factors into my job choices. I want something where I'll make enough money to live, but not something where I'll have a high enough salary they'll start feeling like it's unacceptable for me to go home at 5 and finish up what I was working on the next day.
Perhaps serial freelancing and having many smaller jobs isn't what you should be doing? Because that just increases the level of juggling/scheduling stress and the sense of deadlines rather than defined amounts of time for which you work?
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Date: 2010-07-20 04:45 pm (UTC)Jobs in themselves are sucky, stressful time-stealers. But they are also predictable, they are things you become better at through routine, and they are things that have a set amount of time in which you have to perform them and then, (barring certain types of job like teaching or more managerial stuff), you go home and you forget about it.
I'm not saying it'll definitely work that way, because fuck it, my job stresses me out sometimes and I only work three days a week. But since I know a large part of your issues regarding stress is scheduling, is finding the time to get everything done (and this is something I empathise with), a job is basically a way of putting all your Adult Shit into one basket of "this gets me money" and the amount of time you spend at it is predetermined.
So maybe that's something to consider when looking for jobs. Don't go for a job where you're likely to be expected to do a lot of unexpected overtime, etc. That certainly factors into my job choices. I want something where I'll make enough money to live, but not something where I'll have a high enough salary they'll start feeling like it's unacceptable for me to go home at 5 and finish up what I was working on the next day.
Perhaps serial freelancing and having many smaller jobs isn't what you should be doing? Because that just increases the level of juggling/scheduling stress and the sense of deadlines rather than defined amounts of time for which you work?