Bed-rotting, Burnout, and Bachelor's Degrees
Oh my!
In my last real post, I was vulnerable about where I really am mentally right now. The level of exhaustion and burnout I’ve been feeling is heavily impacting my life. Today’s post is going over more of the plan I have to help recover from my burnout, the necessity of bed-rotting, and weighing the idea of going for my bachelor’s degree when I’m still trying to work on this. Let’s dive into this feet first and drowning.
Bed-rotting
I don’t know about you, but I love staying in my bed. It’s like my little nest of quilts and pillows and is often where my books and notebooks live with me. . . with occasional guest appearances of my cat Freya.
Though in all seriousness, what the younger generation calls “bed-rotting” most of us Millennials and Gen-X would have called it being lazy or depressing, because that is what was painfully engraved upon our brains by our parents. Being able to take a day to just grab your favorite snacks, put on your comfort show (I’m currently rewatching Xena), and not have to be what society has shoved down our throats as productivity, can feel like a rebellious act.
Rest in and of itself is a rebellious act.
Adding onto to it the extra layers of my exhaustion parfait from burnout, CPTSD, and well -gestures at the state of the world- . . . a good bed-rot day is more of a necessity than a luxury. Or at least that is what my boyfriend says to me as I go through my 4th day of drinking 3 dark roast coffees in the morning just to barely function.
You’re Getting a Bachelor’s Degree?
What can I say? I’m a bit of a masochist. Because in all honesty, I’ve been wanting to go back to school for the last 10 years. However the degree of choice has changed. At first I wanted to go for library sciences, then of course editing, but now that I’m finally able to do it. And of course in true masochist fashion, I go for Human Resource Management.
How does this factor in my burnout recovery? In my glow up altogether?
Well partially it is the hope for a career change on a financial front as well as a purpose front. I will have better opportunities to learn ways to support people that I have struggled along side. But also have a better chance to be moving closer to an actual living wage.
One thing it is helping me do is re-learn how to manage my time. Especially between my full time job, school, and maintaining my long-distance relationship. However I do still feel like I’m failing at that at the moment. Just kinda hitting a wall there. But there are plans to start pivoting to make it more manageable while slowly focusing more on taking care of myself properly. (And no I don’t mean just bed-rotting)
For now, the plan is to have a two month break from my current courses before I start out the new round of classes. Allow me to time to figure out what has worked for me so far, and what hasn’t. Where I can start incorporating more balance between it all. Like making sure I can start working out, because my joints currently hate me from sitting so much.
But that will be a ramble for next time.