It is quite lonely being the last one out of bed in the morning. You roll over to your loved one's side of the bed, which is quickly becoming cold, and try to fall back asleep for 30 more blissful minutes. But the cat thinks it's time to be fed, and the room is a little too bright for your sleepy eyes, and the boyfriend keeps opening and slamming drawers to find things. Yep, I like being the one who wakes him up.
M is enjoying his rotation so far and his fears of whether he'd like the clinical sides of medicine are tossed to the side. Family Medicine was the best rotation for him to start with. The hours are amazing, no weekends for the med students, and he works "late" till 7pm only twice in the next month. I'm trying to not get comfortable with this steady schedule because soon enough it will change again.
What do I love the most so far about the second half of med school? I wish I could say getting to interact with him more. Summer grad school classes have consumed my life. Two nights a week I have class for three straight hours (6 hours of TAX = torture!!). And the ever efficient accounting professors go at full speed without stopping for a stretch break. Stupid inefficient bathroom breaks! Not to mention that after class I have hours of reading on more TAX. And then I get to go to work 8 hours a day to do TAX. I may be going insane.
Somehow, despite my taxing schedule (HILARIOUS), I seem to be the only one capable of making dinner and cleaning the house. I remember when I first began working 8 hour days and how exhausting it was to adjust. Flopping around the house and becoming a vegetable was my hobby for about a year after college. I'm going to give M two weeks before he starts getting nagged into action.
Watching him adjust to having no more 30 minute sanity TV breaks like he could while studying is making me reminisce to three years ago when I started my first job. Colleges mandate that you take gym, art, history, and other useless classes but they never provide you with a class on how to adjust to the real world. My Having a Job Sucks post was written for my sister who was having a problem at work and it comes close to the class I wish had been offered. If I could create a class here are some of the topics we'd go over:
- The art of planning doctor/dentist appointments/errands after work hours (i.e. The art of fixing your own tooth when it's too jagged and it's mid-March in tax season).
- Living on a budget and how to open savings accounts, CDs, and mutual funds
- How to ignore the snide remarks of your coworkers and manage to look efficient at work.
- Where to meet potential new friends who won't turn you into a lampshade
- Alcohol: Do you have a problem or is it just a substitute for Advil?
- Maintaining your soul in a work environment where 99% of coworkers are human robots
- Don't sleep with your attractive coworkers 101
- Coping: Dealing with the 20-something race to the altar and pregnancy when its not you
- The best way to color gray hair when you're overloaded with a stressful job and grad school
What do you think? Do you have additions to the class topics that you wish you'd been informed about before entering the real world?