To feel busier than ever?

[Poptart4]

I work part time in health care (admin side) so I'm still working. Things in the office are really hectic.it feels like every day we're putting out fires, things are really stressful. The health care industry is understandably under alot of pressure right now.

I have 4 kids, 1 toddler and 3 older kids who I'm trying to home school. 2 of my kids need alot of one on one help with their school work. Its bloody draining.

4 kids being home all day means the housework never ends. Shopping, cooking, washing clothes, cleaning...

In the last few weeks I've been asked by several people "am I bored with the lockdown yet?" Chance would be a fine thing!

Anyone else feel busier than ever?

Me!

I miss my old life where I had a bit of downtime.

yes - I normally work 3 days a week but due to everything being via secure phone line (and only being given access to one line) all meetings are spread over 5 days so I'm working full on, trying to home ed 2 small ones and driving eldest to her job (supermarket - currently working 35+ hrs a week and trying to do A levels!)

I feel rushed and stressed - no down time either as they aren't going to their dads - his partner is vulnerable and due to DD1's job we don't want to risk her health - they normally go 3 nights a week.

I miss having at least Friday off - with no school run as they are at their dads Thursday - a lie in and doing nothing!

Definitely. I work full time but it's turned in to full time ++ since I've been WFH.
All these ideas online, in the paper and tv about how to fill your time and not get bored...I wish.
Very much enjoying no commute though.

Me! fulltime work, a primary age child with SENDs and a 3 year old... might punch the next person complaining about being bored! and have unsubscribed from some mailinglists recommending things to “escaper boredom”. i’ not bored, i’m exhausted

This is the kind of stress that isn’t sustainable long term. It will burn a lot of people out (mainly women) more than the previously maligned “juggling” everyone was doing because the key difference then was variety (home versus office) and supports in place (childcare, social life, distractions and hobbies) to help keep all the balls jn the air.

Now all the balls are on the floor in the living room and everyone keeps tripping over them.

Yes...I can't complain...I'm a sahm but this home schooling thing combined with everyone at home is really exhausting. I'd love to be bored!

I'm the same OP. I'm an NHS nurse and DH also works for the NHS is a support role. Work is chaotic. We also have a 5 year old autistic DD and a 3 year old DD who has recently regressed with toilet training and is peeing everywhere inexplicably. Nursery and the childminder have both stopped working, and obviously we can't have contact with any of usual support networks like my Mum so we're trying to both juggle working full-time with the kids, constant cleaning, food prep and laundry; whilst also trying to home educate DD1, with the mountain of school work the school seem to think I have loads of time to do. Oh and her speech and language therapy team have sent me some speech and language work to do with DD1 as well. I'm fucking knackered, and a million miles from being 'bored'.

And just to add salt in the wound I have a friend who has been furloughed (on full pay) who keeps texting me moaning that she's bored. I'm sure it's a case that the grass is always greener on the other side, but I really think maybe she could complain to someone else about her boredom.

Yes I Def feel busier. WFH full time whilst trying to make sure DD does school work. More cooking, more cleaning. More washing, more entertaining DD so some work Hours are in the evening, walking the dog. Shopping and collecting prescriptions for elderly in my road. It's tiring

Glad it's not just me.

I am grateful to still have a job, I feel abit bad moaning when so many might not have a job to go back to. It all just gets abit exhausting sometimes.

Me too! I’d love to be bored!

I’m a single parent, trying to wfh full time, home schooling 6 yo and helping 11 yo where needed.

Exh does have them some of the time but those (limited!) hours are needed for getting on with work.

Plus as you say, the constant meals, tidying, cleaning etc. Exhausted and so busy! And then I get messages from family with suggestions for stuff to do! Stuff to do is not what I lack.

In some ways its calmer without commuting / school runs/ after school clubs etc
My DC are in secondary school but its challenging getting them out of bed and motivated to do school work -well getting them motivated to do anything really!
I'm working from home doing the same hours so although I save an hours commute a day I don't have loads of extra free time and do get fed up hearing from friends who are furloughed being bored, or spending time sunbathing in garden, or able to do loads with their kids and really get the homeschooling thing sorted. My life maybe slightly less frantic but I still havent got tons of free time that so many others seem to.

I’m also even busier than before - widowed parent WFH with two primary-aged children including one with some additional needs. Chuck in some grief regression all round -which I now know is unsurprising because of the situation - and really I am on my knees. But I still can’t get to sleep 🤷‍♀️

I'm sorry tunnocks. That must be bloody hard. Look after yourselves.

Busier than ever here too. WFT - medical publishing which is SO busy right now as you might imagine. Not complaining about being in work still when others are not but it has ramped up to an unsustainable level. No commute which is good but don’t seem to have the 2.5 hours a day back that I had before to do other “stuff”.
More house work to do as we’re in all the time (cleaner not coming atm); more food to think about / video calls / ensuring family and parents are in check. It just all seems never ending and as a previous poster said, can’t go to sleep and when I do am having the most strange dreams. Shattered!!