Ivette Quiñónez

Some say busy is seductive, I prefer not being seductive.

3 weeks ago an ex-boss of mine called on a Sunday, he said he needed me until Dec. 31st. He was my boss during social service, I finished that by the end of October. I was not busy and I needed a distraction, so I said yes. Little did I know about the amount of work he had, but being brave I decided to take it.

It’s January 3rd and he has offered me to stay longer, with a promotion both work wise and economically. I asked for a bit of time. You see, of the 3 previous weeks only one I had school, so the next two were not as hard. But now I am back to school and I start work at 8am, get home at 5.10pm and leave to school at 5.50pm, then back until 10pm. It is sometimes a bit too much, specially when there are homeworks involved.

Boss has said I can start at 9am instead of 8, and that whenever I have to leave early I can do so. He’s practically begging me to stay at least until May, since he knows I might have other plans for when school is done.

Of course school is my priority, and as I said, I will be done in May. I can’t wait, by the way. I am counting the days :P

I am really hoping I don’t feel it’s too hard to do both at this time, I feel really grateful to my boss and I really wouldn’t like to leave… work is still very busy, although the bad bad time has passed, at least for a while.

Besides, in all honesty, work has been so helpful through this time. It’s too busy you cannot allow yourself to be thinking of something, or someone, else. I think it’s helping me big time and I am afraid if it’s not there anymore I will be sad, or miss too much, or one of those horrible things that happen after a breakup.

I’ll let you know all about my work life.  And, the emotional part of my life is really not too bad. At least way better than I expected. Funny how things work out sometimes. I guess the whole things happen for a reason is, besides comforting, very true.