Cody’s blog

I’ve been thinking about quitting my job lately. It’s not that I don’t like the work—although it’s been getting less and less fun since we’re so short-handed, and now we’re not even allowed to use Extra Help to fill all the hours we should have people there—it’s that I have so much stuff to do at home, and work is taking up too much of my time.

I started my job as something to do to get me out of the house when I was so depressed after my cancer treatments, and it really helped at the time. Then, I barely had the energy to crawl out of bed in the morning, so things like large plumbing projects and home improvements were not going to get done anyway. Now, I’ve got my running and my Buddhist practice and all the yard work and house work and clean-up and fix-it projects I want to do, and I actually have energy to do them—but barely any time.

Money is a bit of a problem—that extra $500 a month from the library really comes in handy—but I could work out ways to handle it. Right now, I’m hesitating because I don’t want to leave the library any more short-handed than we already are. We finally have a list to hire a new OST from, but then our other OST is retiring in January so we’re back to square one. It’ll probably take the county another six months before they let us replace her. And one of the other DAs mentioned to me that she’ll probably quit in November. I’d like to wait until we’re fully staffed before quitting, but that could be a long time from now. I guess I’ll just have to see what happens, whether my frustration with work hits a boiling point before the staffing problems are solved.

I would like to stay on as Extra Help. I still like working at the library, and would be happy to work a day or two a week, or a few weeks every now and then. In fact, if I could even just drop one of my half-days, I’d like my schedule a lot better. We’ll see.