Putting so many hours in such a short amount of time felt ridiculous at times this week. I literally spent more time in study rooms and in the library than I did at home with friends or flatmates this week. Priorities stink sometimes! I didn't just have the Case Analysis, either. I, as I am sure you all did, had several other huge assignments for my other classes... all of which suffered! But what I realized was that this was not a cruel experiment or a power-trip moment from Professor Midd--this is real life! This is the business world; this is the academic world; this is the designer world. There will be weeks or months where our families or friends are unfortunately ignored because we choosing to put all our efforts into our projects.
My mother did free-lance design projects from time-to-time throughout my life. She would choose times when we had less going on and my father was less busy at work because she knew that designing for companies was something she had to give her all to and that when there was a deadline fast approaching, there were measures to be made to meet them.
As difficult as it was, this week was a great preparation and similitude how the real world is and what it expects of us.
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ReplyDeleteMy old man would always say to me "I have three major priorities in life: family, church, and work. I can only do two of these well at any given time."
For some reason, that totally stuck with me. I think where we, as people in general, run into problems isn't when we have too much to do (like this past week for you) but when we don't see the "stuff" in context.
Great post.
Rock on.