It's off to work I go. But I REALLY don't want to today. Yes, I'm whining. It's my blog get over it. I am motivated to paint, and vacuum, and clean, and de-clutter. I am NOT motivated to drive in to work to work my ass off for 8 hours and come home and collapse at 11:00 PM with no motivation left to do anything.

I work in a lab where there are three shifts. I work afternoon shift, obviously. The management wants to move towards a continuous processing workflow. Gone are the days of finishing your work and relaxing for the last hour of the shift. Now we are busy the whole day, and rarely finish our workload, passing it on to midnight shift to finish. It makes for an exhausting day. I'm not trying to whine about my job, I am happy to have one, and the pay is not bad. But when you get used to one thing, it sucks when they turn everything upside down.

In our lab, we have different roles to perform. We make the schedule on a semi-rotational basis. I say "semi" because some others and myself are not trained to operate all the equipment, so we don't get a full rotation throughout the week and sometimes get stuck doing the same thing three or four days in a row. Burns you out. That's me today. I did the same task for the last two days...and I have to go in a do it again today. Only today I am the one with all the extra start up maintenance to do on the instruments, also I am the one who has to wait to start my work until later in the night, and will finish up latest. I am scheduled for my least favorite task today. Many times in this role, I won't even get a lunch break. 8.5 hours on my feet, running around, racing the clock, hoping for things to run smoothly. There I'm done complaining, gonna suck it up and try to make the best of it.

I tried to explain this the best I could to make sense without giving away too much of where I work exactly. Sorry if it is unclear.