How busy is your life? aka Work/Education

[KennDemon]

School pretty much eats up all of my time. I have a lot of classes, and then a lot of homework when I'm not in class. There's also the pesky need to sleep and eat (sometimes I have to choose between them). I miss the lazy summer days when I was free to spend twelve hours in front of my computer writing.

[Sanz]

I work 30-38 hrs a week Monday - Friday off on weekends
I have two classes Monday 6-10. Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-4. I'm just so happy I have off on weekends.

[IdiotWithPencil]

I wake up everyday a 6am, shower and go to university, I have no friends =/ to hang out so I'm a shut in for the time being =P, I sketch or ink 2 pages a day, one is from a nuzlock I am working on with my sis and the other one is for my series Kao, and I am lucky since my uni schedule is pretty light and most material is stuff I already learned in Venezuela soooo I usually just sketch in class =V or read reddit, then I sleep at 11 to 12 pm XD (I have a depressing life god)

@Sanz
sounds harsh =/

[Sanz]

it's not so bad. I just don't have a social life outside of the internet . which is fine.

[lilydusk]

I work full time, a 55hr work week (plus commute). Also have a house, a husband and three kitties to look after. Other than that though, I'm commitment free and I'm going to keep it that way

[LoboSong_Hitaka5Ever]

Not really busy at all even though it feels like it because I tend to just eff around on the internet all day. I deliver newspapers so I don't have to work long hours or anything. I mostly try to write since I don't get a lot of art my way (collab commissions) I feel like I never get anything done though :\

[lilydusk]

@Aura-Redwood Have you heard of the four burners theory? It states that the first burner represents your family, second burner your friends, third burner your health, and fourth burner your work. To be successful, you have to cut off one of your burners. To be really successful you have to cut off two.

I personally find it quite rubbish though, to be honest.

[DiscsNBeats]

That was a good read, didn't know about that so thanks for the info!

Right now studies consume all my time. Not the studies itself but mostly the traffic. Having to leave the house 3 hours before i enter class and then 2 hours on traffic when i'm out it's pretty tiring, so for know i'm taking a break from the comic stuff.

I guess i'll return when i'm on vacations or something.

[Kayke]

Right now? Very very busy. I only work at my "day job" part-time, but almost all of my other time is dedicated to working on art at this point. Any day off or after work time is just drawing, writing, coloring, emailing, networking, social media, blah blah ugh. I wish I didn't have student loans so I could just do cartooning full time and use my part-time job time to relax and be with the people who matter to me.

I was actually thinking this morning about how I haven't seen one of my friends in a while. I usually dedicate one night a week to getting dinner with him to catch up because he's not into talking over text or the computer... but I've been too busy to do that this month and I feel bad about it -__-

I'm just glad everyone in my life is understanding about how I get around deadline-time. I'm super lucky they know I'm not avoiding them, I'm just working hard.

[375]

Pretty busy actually. Im always at college because hey I work there and Im a full time student so im there Monday-Friday, 9am to 5 or 8pm depending on the day and when I get home I cook dinner for the fam and then do some homework for the next day and then crash, only to wake up and do it all over again! XD My boss and I joke that I live at school.

During the weekends I normally do homework and then write. If I have anymore freetime, I play video games, text friends, or clean the house.

[punkarsenic]

i wake up. i mess about for two hours. i work. i go to bed. repeat.

im in full time education, taking an art BTEC, so its a lot of work and i am EXTRA in my coursework, so lately especially ive been either working on my comic or working on my sketchbook and very little else. i dont work often, but when i do it tends to long hours working in theatres, typically all clumped up in a week. its really fun work, i love it to bits, but very tiring. i also sometimes go to poetry nights, bc im a poet and that, which is an evening of Doing things. i dont as much these days bc im tired and busy and theyre all aaaaall the way into the city and i live on the outskirts but i need to go more

generally, idm how busy i am, bc i love the work i do. sometimes it can get on top of me, and i worry abt burning out, but im better than i sound at shoehorning in me time, and i work at my own pace, usually multitasking with recreational stuff (so ill put on a movie and work on my sketchbook, or listen to a podcast as i draw my comic)

[LCT_m_a_d]

My full time Job consumes a lot of my time. Im very strict about avoiding unnecessary responsibilities and projects outside of work, comic, and spending time with family/friends. I have lots of hobbies but I don't really binge into anything.

[UrMom]

Oh god, I'm away from home 11 hours a day, getting my ass out of bed at 5am, sometimes I work weekends as well. Then I go home and start helping my partially disabled mom with chores, do self-care stuff like taking a shower, helping prepare dinner. I get a little free time after work, but 50% of the time I'm so mentally/physically exhausted I just stare at my computer for most if it. I literally have no social life cuz I have no friends. (not saying that as a "feel bad for me!" thing, I'm just saying it how it is. My life is work, eat, sleep, sometimes draw.)

[zuggarts]

I'm a full-time student, my classes start at 8:30 everyday and usually end around 5:30 with an hour break for lunch. Then I go home, do assignments and labs, and spend a fuck-ton of time trying to find a job. I'm also taking a couple of MOOCs on Coursera in my attempts to make my resume more presentable, so that takes up a few hours everyday as well. The place I rented out is only about a 10 minute walk from campus so I'm pretty lucky in that regard. Unfortunately rent+education is a huge financial drain and I don't always have time to cook, so I'm broke as fuck and probaby won't make all my payments on the lease unless I borrow some money from my parents, which I hope I don't have to resort to.

@DaniBoy: Oh damn man, that sounds like a lot of stuff on your plate, hope things get better for you soon.

[Heliox14]

I used to have free time.
Now I have schoolwork. And I'm drowning in it.
@zuggarts Adulting sucks, no? I really do hope you can get out of that hole...

[XzynderVexymous]

Extremely. But also at the same time, it isn't. I have some time on my hands, sometimes.

[Shanny8]

Very busy. Work over 40 hrs at my RL job, try to spend evenings & weekends working on my comic, watching football/movies/catch up on watching TV shows, or cleaning my place/doing laundry/going to the movies. Most of my friends are comic artists too, so I dont really see them until we meet up at cons; they're busy with real life jobs and doing comics on the side just like I am.

[vladitsvar]

I don't think is that busy...
Let's see...
I wake up at 6 am to go to university, then, depending on the day, i come back home between 2pm to 9pm study from 4 to 6 hours/day and i'm a teacher's assistant too, so i prepare some class material to help younger ones in the same university, at 10 pm i start drawing my webcomic and i go to bed between 12pm to 1 am.
On saturdays and sundays i have free time so i watch some anime too or read webcomics.
Eh? Doesn't it sound pretty busy? D:

[anitacomics]

I work part time, study part time, do some sports, draw my comic while partecipating in various other artistic projects (like anthologies). I also have a boyfriend, but I must admit I lack in friends ._.

[shaylafarley5]

I missed the days when I had a set schedule that way I could work out and draw for few hours.

Now that I'm active duty in always away from my computer(because I'm on a ship) even having a mini sketch book in my pocket dosent help because they don't want me drawing during working hours.

We pretty much do nothing for 12 hours before we switch watches and it drives me crazy. Even trying to go to a nearby art school is nearly impossible for all the the days I will miss. I miss the good life