collegecandy.com: Life can get tough to juggle especially when you have a career to also balance. Whether your commitments are school, college, a full-time job etc. etc. it can be hard to find a work/life balance.
The easiest thing to do after a long day with commitments that usually take up most of your time is to head right home and just relax with yourself. Or maybe you just go home to still be surrounded in your work or thinking about work.
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This article can be really easy to shrug off and go “yeah, ok, try being a full time student in something like theater.” Doing well in our classes, doing well in our production assignments, and also making time for everything on this list means you start to run out of hours pretty quickly. That being said, I think it’s important to realize that totally disregarding this now can lead to unhealthy practices once we get out of the walls of dear Purnell. The Entertainment and Art industry has a really bad habit of trying to make sure your hobby outside of work is more theater. I rarely if ever go see shows outside of work. Not that I don’t ever go see theater, but I am incredibly picky in what I do go see. I don’t need to see the same show with just different actors over and over again. And in fact, I don’t usually get paid enough to go see all the shows I should see, much less the ones I want to see (but that’s something else entirely). I’ll support my friends, and I try to see as many shows as I can here so I know what’s happening, but I do have interests outside of theater. One of them includes sitting in parks, reading books, and remembering that the sky does give out free Vitamin D (occasionally, maybe not in Pittsburgh). Those kinds of outside interests and hobbies should never be thought of as “less important” than the passion that got us into theater, they can actually help us grow into better artists, bringing knowledge from other things into the work we do inside the shops. So if nothing else, really embrace that last one, Make time for Your Passions. And let it be ok to not have your top passion be theater sometimes.
Mental health is something that has been talked about a lot recently as we freshmen enter this new and “stressful” chapter in our lives. The transition from highschool to college is one of the biggest that many face, and one that I am personally going through right now. I have always thought of the transition of highschool to college as more of a teenage to young adult transition, which in turn, only added more stress. This article breaks down a couple of different and important aspects to think about when trying to maintain a healthy mentality in conjunction with maintaining a successful work life or, in my case, academic life. Many articles explaining the importance of mental health can be hard to digest especially to a young audience. This article will be one that I will continually refer to because it’s easy to understand and follow. Incorporating simple everyday activities into your daily routine can help you stay organized and prioritize your time wisely. While reading this article I realized the importance of doing that and how simple it can be. The process of juggling hard work and healthy state of mind does not have to be a stressful one, as long as the time management of the two flows correctly.
This article could not have come at a better time in my life. Starting my freshman year here at CMU in the school of drama I have heard so much about how we have to balance our lives and make sure to stay healthy and get enough sleep. And I have listened to everything that people have been saying, but this article felt a lot more personal for me. Much of the advice on this article I know I need to follow, there wasn't anything where I thought "oh but that doesn't apply to me." This article was saying things like don't be a perfectionist" and "get enough sleep" and "set goals' all of which I feel like are my personal goals and things I need to be constantly reminding myself of. I appreciate how this article doesn't say very much about each of their ways to maintain a healthy and balanced life because I believe that as soon as an article gets too specific about what they recommend it becomes very easy to believe that these guidelines don't apply to me. This article has been one of the most helpful things I have heard or read since I got here at CMU because every single thing stated in this article I know will help me succeed and have a better first year I have bookmarked this article and I know I will be referring to it often throughout my first year.
This advice is all pretty standard and all very valid. Nothing mind blowing, and nothing I haven’t heard before, but there is a difference between knowing it and doing it. I find that my work life balance is always much better during the summer when I’m working a job rather than during the school year, and I think that is in a large part because many of the things on these list are a bigger part of my life in the summer. So far I have always had summer jobs where even if I’m working long days with very few days off, when I go home, work doesn’t follow me. I can relax, I can read a book, I can go play a board game with friends. I always have time to cook (which is important to me because I like good food and I also like cooking) and being able to balance my work and my life isn’t that bad. During the school year, I never stop working. I just don’t have time in the day for classwork, production work, exercise, cooking, laundry, sleeping, working on things I’m passionate about (in addition to my major, which I picked for passion in the first place), socializing, and relaxing on a regular basis. Over the course of the last few years I’ve found I can fit all of the things on this list in to some degree, even if I can’t fit them in to the degree I really would like to. I know my academic work life balance isn’t sustainable, but my college career is 4 years, and I can survive having 4 years of sub-optimal work life balance. Sure, it can’t be so drastically awful that I’m a complete mess for 4 years, but at this point I’ve come to accept the fact that I can live with somewhere in the half-decent to not-so-great-but-fine-I-guess range for now. I realize that saying “I’ll have a better work life balance later” seems similar to “I’ll start going to the gym eventually” but based on my summer work experience, it really will be more attainable post graduation, and until then I’ll keep doing the best I can with the time I’ve got.
The article “Self-Care Sunday: How to Maintain a Work Life Balance”, by Rosemary Pawloski, published on College Candy, features things that is important for everyone to practice, not only college students. Personally, I needed something to remind me to practice habits I already do, but to reinforce them in this new enviroment. Junior year of high school, I had a major life event that made me self reflect, and look at the way I work, think, and function. I found for myself many of the things written in this article, finding that I work best with lists, notes, and the occasional meditation. I created many healthy routines at home that brought structure in my life, and made me feel at ease. Since coming here I have easily lost those self reflective habits, and have been distracted by this new enviroment. So far I’ve been enjoying it here, but for the long term I need to set time for myself and these activies that I was reminded of in this Article. This was the perfect article, I needed to read this right now, slow down and have a “Self-care Sunday”.
The article “Self-Care Sunday: How to Maintain a Work Life Balance”, by Rosemary Pawloski, published on College Candy, features things that is important for everyone to practice, not only college students. Personally, I needed something to remind me to practice habits I already do, but to reinforce them in this new enviroment. Junior year of high school, I had a major life event that made me self reflect, and look at the way I work, think, and function. I found for myself many of the things written in this article, finding that I work best with lists, notes, and the occasional meditation. I created many healthy routines at home that brought structure in my life, and made me feel at ease. Since coming here I have easily lost those self reflective habits, and have been distracted by this new enviroment. So far I’ve been enjoying it here, but for the long term I need to set time for myself and these activies that I was reminded of in this Article. This was the perfect article, I needed to read this right now, slow down and have a “Self-care Sunday”.
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