Is this how life is for everyone or would you find this too much?

[pansal]

I feel like I am constantly having to communicate with someone at all times. It makes me really bloody miserable! I have a two year old and I work full time. Obviously I am 100% on it where my child is concerned and I think this is where my lack of patience comes in for anyone else! If I hear from family about mundane stuff in the day (calls about what size t shirt ds is now in for example), I honestly feel like I could bang my head against the wall! Then I’m bombarded with calls at work. Then it’s having to sort bills or speaking to some call centre. There’s so much more but I’m too exhausted to type. Is this a common feeling or have I just turned into a miserable git who is blowing things out of proportion?

I know what you mean. I have factored in an hour of curveballs time daily (not that I have an extra hour but anyway) to at least feel comfortable in expecting the annoying unexpected things that usually crop up (like being in hold for 40 mins for example, over some random boring household thing that malfunctioned). It at least takes the edge off.

It's not obligatory to join Whatsapp groups you know

Wait a bit and some of the ‘this isn’t hard, just put everything on direct debit, don’t make such a meal of it’ posters will be along. They always turn up on the wifework threads.

I think that’s only true of you have a very standard life. Any tiny deviation from average (health, house etc) makes everything so much harder.

Just getting my DD all the medication required as back up for a school trip took me about three hours over three weeks - would be fine for me but a child can’t use the app, has to be email, then the wrong thing was sent, the pharmacy isn’t open at the weekends so I need to find time on a wfh day to pick it up, then there’s an extra requirement for an asthma plan so back to on hold with the GP to be told that they are too busy to do one before the trip, so back to school to explain and ask if she can still go…