I’ve started full-time work and it’s non-stop – when do I get some time for me? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri
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Entering the world of work can seem overwhelming, but remember that every stage of life is initially a challenge. Give yourself time to adjust. Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a relationship problem sent in by a reader. I am a 23-year-old woman who has recently finished studying for a masters and started working full-time on a graduate scheme. Although I really enjoy my work and my colleagues are lovely, I can’t help but think about never having enough time to do truly what I want to do.
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After the eight hours I spend at work, an hour and a half of commuting each day, an hour for cooking, another hour for personal hygiene and then eight hours for sleep, I don’t feel I have any time for anything fulfilling. I also feel quite lonely with regard to my friendships, since my best friends are either strewn across the UK or have returned to their countries of origin.
I’ve come back to my home city and feel as if I am starting from the beginning again, as well as not knowing how to cope emotionally with working full time or how to be sociable without the context of university. It’s very early days and it’s another chapter, not a beginning as such. Just as leaving home and going to university would have taken a lot of adapting, so does this. Each stage in life has new challenges. The world of further education, as you’ve seen, has a relatively stricter structure and people are of a similar age. There’s a lot of ‘inbuilt’ common ground. Work is different, although there will probably be similarly aged people on your graduate scheme.
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