On your first day, you’re unsure how to balance your main job and side work.
Even with your first day at work coming up, you keep going back and forth: should you stick with your main work, or make more time for your side work?
Scenes
- It’s only the first day. Do I already have to choose between the two? — On the day you start your new job while keeping your side work going, you try to decide how long to keep doing both.
- If I pause my side work, will I lose what I can return to? — You worry that customers will drift away if you scale back your side work for a while. And you don’t yet know how much energy you’ll have after starting the new job.
- You don’t yet know if you can keep both jobs going. — Before you start, it’s hard to know when you’ll finish or how much energy you’ll have. If you divide your time based on guesses, you end up filling in the blanks with more guesses.
- Track your actual hours during the first week. — Tonight, just write down when you start and finish work. Seeing how much those times differ from what you expected can give you a guide for your next decision.
- You don’t have to settle how much time to give each job today. — You can look at the hours you’ve logged after starting work, then revisit how much time to give your side work.
Stories by Haewol
- Haewol
- Even after the funeral, I’m still unsure whether to leave the group or stay.
- Sitting in the parked car, I try not to call Mom first.
- In the hospital waiting room, she imagines welcoming new customers.
- Even while shopping, I can't bring myself to say it.
- By the rainy window, I’m unsure whether we should manage our money together.
- Even while folding laundry, I weigh whether to go into business with someone or go it alone.
- When I’m alone in my room, I wonder if it’s okay to rest today.
- I spent the whole afternoon staring at the guarantee form.