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Originally Posted by DarknessIsMyFriend
This post is meant as a question more than anything, but how can a "normal" person handle a lot of responsibility in their life at once? I am talking about those who work full time jobs and go to college or work over 40 hours a week and have a spouse and children at home.
I struggle to manage working part time and going to school as a single adult male without getting overwhelmed. How can people manage so much more? It almost seems superhuman to me.
I know that I could never manage what some of these other people do. If I ever had to work more than 40-50 hours a week and take care of a family, I would crumble under that amount of pressure and run for the hills. I am just not wired to be that way.
How to people do it?
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You end up getting out of touch with yourself, bc you are setting the bar high externally and shutting out your own inner voice in my experience of working huge hours in academia and juggling personal life. People will go along time on fumes, and then crash. You almost don't check in with yourself or be a person anymore. I am sure there are those people with awesome early childhoods brain chemicals no trauma- whatever who thrive, but some people who make it look easy on the outside pay a price on the inside eventually.