How do you find the strength to go on, day in day out at work? I get up at 6:30 AM. I have a little over an hour commute each day. I work my 8 to 17 job. by the time I get home its around 18:15 so overall I am giving close to 12 hours of my day to work and coming back home I am tired and beaten all I do is shower, cook dinner, eat it, and then laze around on youtube like a zombie until I fall asleep around 21 only to start the race anew tomorrow Half of my weekend is spent on house keeping chores (living alone, I get the pleasure of doing all of them alone) the latter half is spent mostly lazing online because I neither have the strength, nor the time, to seriously indulge any hobbies at best I mindlessly play some video game but I cant say I really enjoy it because I am zoned out with the fatigue of the past week and the stress of the new work week ahead. Next week will be my 3rd year in my current job and honestly I have no idea how I survived that long, or how long I can survive in this state. Whatever this is, this aint living its being a zombie.
To be honest, if you got a routine with exercise, it would give you more energy to do things instead of not having enough.
I started with a bike commute in the morning that was 10 minutes that ended up being 1+hr, then running in the winter when it got too cold. I started with the mentality that “it was judt a commute” and not exercise…and the tedt just built up slowly.
I work as a chef and had more energy through the day and on my days off, and even did a couple triathlons.
My doc thought it also was a great "coping mechanism " for my stress and i gotta tell you it gave me time in the morning to organize my thoughts & prepare for the day.
When I was a chef, I would run 3 miles after work every day. My wife thought I was nuts when I told her that, but as active as that job was, it was much more standing and thinking than running. The run was like opening a flood gate to just get it all out. Your way of exercising before work probably works much better, but I was deeply of the mindset of not waking up any earlier than absolutely necessary. Now when I’m on day shift, I have to get up at 3am, so I don’t think I’d exercise before work now either lol. On night shift, there’s plenty of time before work, but I gotta be ready to work until like 4:30am, so it’s still tough. 12 hour shifts are rough. But I usually get pretty good exercise at work, so I think that’s covered okay.
The stress of being a chef is real. Inventory, ordering, scheduling, difficult customers, unreliable staff, equipment breaking down, etc. I’m still passionate about food, but I’m not ashamed to admit that the stress was too much for me and the pay too little. I’m glad you found a way to keep going. You’re a stronger person than me for that. It took years, but I think I’m getting the hang of cooking for two instead of like forty haha.
Only thing that saved me is moving to Spain and opening our own BBQ joint, lol, now my stress is way less (by myself in the kitchen instead of 6 sous/outlets and 65 cooks) I hardly exercise anymore, occasionally hiking & mountain biking now instead of road.
Definitely better than company work! Cheers!
What are the odds?! My wife and I just landed in Madrid at 6am for a vacation. Never been to Europe. Well, I lived in Germany as a kid, but I don’t remember much of that.
We’re literally just wandering and killing time until our hotel room is ready for check-in.
Madrid is Hot AF right now…hope you get a room with AC!